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Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

See Draughtsman.

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

To draft or draw anew.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

(Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

dy, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

ne for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Grabb.

Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilatingshaft, etc.

To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

ing; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway. Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. -- Down in the mouth, chopfallen; dejected.

The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich.