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of Draw.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

rst Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

rers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. -- In gen…

rognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

rs by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

ed by kindness; favorable; lenient. By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. L. Andrews.

; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

A spoon. Andrews.

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

To combine together by an eath; to conspire; to confederate. [A Latinism] Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest. Milton.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

by degrees, become the crucifix. Milman. And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew. Warner.

resentative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.

A noun which has only two cases. Andrews.

ll along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn t…