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A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

a sweeping the water for fish. Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left. Sir M. Hale.

To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. "Where I first drew air." Milton. Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. Dryden.

To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. To drink the cooler air, Tennyson. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance. Shak. Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope.

up with thirst. Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.

Creation; a doing. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale.

To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.] Hales.

A general fire; a conflagration. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm…

Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume. Nor let the essences exhale. Pope.

f being used in, estimating. We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale. --E*vin"ci*bly, adv.

animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

ifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has…

To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] "Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs]." Sir M. Hale.

The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.

To pick out. [Obs.] Hales.

Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. Boyle.

That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.