Draper (n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Draperied (a.) Covered or supplied with drapery.
Draperies (pl. ) of Drapery
Drapery (n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Drapery (n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
Drapery (n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
Drapet (n.) Cloth.
Drastic (a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
Drastic (n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Drasty (a.) Filthy; worthless.
Draugh (n.) See Draft.
Draught (n.) The act of drawing or pulling
Draught (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
Draught (n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
Draught (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
Draught (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
Draught (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
Draught (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
Draught (n.) That which is drawn
Draught (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
Draught (n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
Draught (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
Draught (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
Draught (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
Draught (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
Draught (n.) That which draws
Draught (n.) A team of oxen or horses.
Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Draught (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
Draught (n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
Draught (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
Draught (n.) See Draft, n., 7.
Draught (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
Draught (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
Draught (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
Draught (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
Draughted (imp. & p. p.) of Draught
Draughting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draught
Draught (v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
Draught (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
Draught (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
Draughtboard (n.) A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Draughts (n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
Draughtsmen (pl. ) of Draughtsman
Draughtsman (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.
Draughtsman (n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
Draughtsman (n.) A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
Draughtsman (n.) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Draughtsmanship (n.) The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
Draughty (a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
Drave () old imp. of Drive.
Dravida (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
Dravidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Drew (imp.) of Draw
Drawn (p. p.) of Draw
Drawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw
Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Draw (v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
Draw (v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
Draw (v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
Draw (v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
Draw (v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
Draw (v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
Draw (v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
Draw (v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
Draw (v. t.) To remove the contents of
Draw (v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
Draw (v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
Draw (v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
Draw (v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
Draw (v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
Draw (v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
Draw (v. t.) To withdraw.
Draw (v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
Draw (v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
Draw (v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
Draw (v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
Draw (v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
Draw (v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
Draw (v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
Draw (v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
Draw (v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
Draw (v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
Draw (v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Draw (n.) The act of drawing; draught.
Draw (n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.
Draw (n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.
Draw (n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
Drawable (a.) Capable of being drawn.
Drawback (n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.