![]() To produce to bring, as an agent or efficient cause usually followed by a modifying word as, piety draws down blessings crimes draw down vengeance vice draws on us many temporal evils war draws after it a train of calamities.ġ6. To extract as, to draw spirit from grain or juice.ġ5. To draw the curtain is used in both sense.ġ4. To cause to slide as a curtain, either in closing or unclosing to open or unclose and discover, or to close and conceal. To take from an over as, to draw bread.ġ3. To take a liquid form the body to let out as, to draw blood or water.ġ2. To take from a cask or vat to cause or to suffer a liquid to run out a, to draw wine or cider.ġ1. To pull or take from a spit, as a piece of meat.ġ0. To inhale to take air into the lungs as, there I first drew air I draw the sultry air.ĩ. To attract to cause to turn towards itself to engage as, a beauty or a popular speaker draws the eyes of an assembly, or draws their attention.Ĩ. To attract to cause to move or tend towards itself as a magnet or other attracting body is said to draw it.ħ. To pull up or out to raise from any depth as, to draw water from a well.Ħ. To bring by compulsion to cause to come.ĭo not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seat? James 2.Ĥ. Hence, to draw the sword, is to wage war.ģ. To pull out, as to draw a sword or dagger from its sheath to unsheathe. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire yet draw is properly used in both cases.Ģ. ![]() Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag, more specific. It differs from drag only in this, that drag is more generally applied to things moved along the ground by sliding, or moved with greater toil or difficulty, and draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force. To pull along to haul to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved or at the fore-end, as by a rope or chain. It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.ġ. ![]()
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