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See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

Drawn in.

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets t…

The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. Dunglison.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

icularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. -- The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. --…

or sphere. -- Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from 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, Refractio…