drawcut (drakut)

IMG:content-3143.png:[graphic] -eel.] One on of exchange is n-that is, the one to whom its request is addre ed; the person requested by a bill of exchange to pay it. See extract under drawer, 3. drawer (dra'er), n. [ Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation. Josh. ix. 21. Put on two leather jerkins and aprons, and wait upon him at his table like drawers . Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2. The Drawers are the ciuillest people in it, men of good bringing vp, and howsoeuer wee esteeme of them, none can boast more iustly of their high calling. Bp . Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Tauerne. 2. One who or that which attracts. - 3. One who draws a bill of exchange or an order for the payment of money. The person, however, who writes this letter [a draft] is called in law the drawer , and he to whom it is written the Black stone , Com., II. 10. drawee. 4. A box-shaped receptacle, as for papers, clothes, etc., fitted into a piece of furniture, as a bureau, a table, a cabinet, etc., in such a manner that acce to it is had by drawing or sliding it out horizontally in its guides or frame. As little knowledge or apprehension as a worm shut up in one drawer of a cabinet hath of the senses or understanding of a man. Locke . 5. pl. An undergarment worn on the legs and lower part of the body by both sexes. The Maltese harden the bodies of their children by making them go stark naked, without shirt or drawers , till Locke . they are ten years old. Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture having drawers to contain clothing, linen, etc. The earlier ones common ly had a box-like compartment above and two or three drawers below. The secretaries frequently found among English and American furniture of the eighteenth century, and still common in some parts of the continent of Europe, are chests of drawers with a writing-table above. The only form now commonly in use is the bureau. The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 230. draw file (dra'fil), v. t.; pret. and pp. draw filed, ppr. draw filing. To file by drawing the file sidewise along the work, as a spoke-shave is used. The cutters are backed off on the ends only, their tops being merely lightly draw - filed after being turned up. J. Rose, Pract. Machinist, p. 177. The cone having been turned true, and its surface slightly roughened by draw filing , it is then charged with flour-emery and oil. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 61.