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

One who finedraws.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

One who draws metal into wire.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

me of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before acceptance, called the drawee, -- after acceptance, the acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself b…

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Swift.

A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:

Drawers. [Obs.]

rding the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.

om, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one. [U. S.]

chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ. Bomb chest, See under Bomb. -- Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.

A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.

A cheat of drawers or a bureau. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool.

ith sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.