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A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

rcles shall be equal to each other. -- Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. -- Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.

lternately; to assert and deny. [Colloq.] -- To back out, To back down, to retreat or withdraw from a promise, engagement, or contest; to recede. [Colloq.] Cleon at first . . . was willing to go; but, finding that he [Nicias] was in earnest, he tried to back out. Jowett (Thucyd. )

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

aw, in which one end rises as the other falls. Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

ent of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

dles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

f an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

r machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn…

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent. Gower.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timber…