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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.

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 piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

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

A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

See Draughtsman.

A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. [Obs.] By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you. Spenser.

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

One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

A crowned man in the game of draughts.

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.

To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.

One who draughts protocols.

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.