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ing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.

A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.

Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke.

ing or taking an antidote. Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer. Milton.

and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.

s, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draughtsman's or mechanic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. Knight. -- Vernier calipers. See Vernier.

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

r screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over…