Draper, John

WILLIAM, an American chemist, B. near Liverpool, England, 1811. His chief works are: Human Physiology, Statical and Dynamical (1856); History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863); and a History of the American Civil War (1867-8). D. 1882. Drapery, n. [Fr. draperie; L. Lat. draper i a.] Cloth a draughtsman. Draughty, ( drafty,) a. Relating to a draught; full of draughts; as, a draughty house. Drave, the old imp. of DRIVE, q. v. "And through his navel drave the pointed death." - Pope . Drave, ( drav ) [Ger. Drau .] A river of central Europe, forming one of the principal tributaries of the Danube. It lies wholly in the Austrian empire, extending between Lat. 46° 50 and 45° 30′ N., and Lon. 12° 20' and 19° E. The D. rises in the E. extremity of the Tyrol, and, after a variously deflected course (estimated at 370 m.), falls into the Danube, near E egg, in Hungary. This river receives several minor affluents of no great importance, and has the cities of Linz, Greifenburg, Villach, and Warasdin situate on its banks. In a commercial point of view, the D. is, at present, but little regarded, its navigation, in many parts, being impeded by many obstructions. Dra'vosburgh, in Pennsylvania, a post-office of Alle ghany co. Draw, v . a . ( imp . DREW, pp . DRAWN.) [A. S. drag an; Swed., Goth. drag a ; Lat. traho . See TRACT.] To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to drag; to pull towards one; to pull out; as, to draw a carriage. - To unsheathe; to bring by compulsion; to cause to come; to pull off or out; as, to draw a badger. - To raise from anything; to bring up or out; as, to draw water from a well. To suck; to drain of contents; as, to draw milk from the breast. - To attract; to cause to move or tend towards one's self; - hence, to allure; to entice; to captivate. "Beauty draws us with a single hair."- Pope . -To engage; to take out; to let out, as a liquid; as, to draw a gla of beer. - To extract; to send forth; to fetch; to produce or bring, as an efficient cause; to get to obtain; to bear. " Draw corruption, and God's curse, by sin."-Daries. -To receive, procure, or take; to win; to gain; as, to draw a prize in the lottery, to draw money from a bank. - To derive from some cause or origin; to deduce from postulates, or by induction; as, to draw an inference. To lengthen; to expand; to spin out; to stretch; to extend in length; as, to draw a long face. - To lead, as a motive; as, to draw a crowd together. "My purposes do draw me much about."-Shaks. To represent by lines drawn upon a surface; to delineate; to form a pictorial representation of; as, to draw a likene . To describe; to represent by words, or in fancy; as, to draw a description.- To induce; to persuade; as, to draw one into a scrape. "The English lords drew the Irish in to dwell among them." Davies. -To compose or write, by way of formulary; to prepare the draught of; as, to draw a bill of exchange, to draw a memorial. "Clerk, draw a deed of gift."- Shaks . -To disembowel; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; "hanged, drawn , and quartered," (said of a criminal.) -To require a certain depth of water for floating; as, the ship draws fourteen feet. - To inhale; to take in by inhalation; to inspire. "Where I first drew air."- Milton. To draw a cover. ( Sport .) To clear a cover of game. To draw a curtain. To close or unclose a curtain; hence, metaphorically, in the first sense, to cover or hide anything. - To draw in. To haul, bring, or gather in; as, " draw in the flowing reins." ( Gay .) - To entice; to inveigle; to induce to enter into; as, drawn into a conspiracy. To draw off . To extract; to drain; as, to draw off water. - To withdraw; to abstract. "It draws men's minds off from the bitterne of party."-Add is on. To draw on. To bring on; to cause; to invite; to occasion; as, to draw on a dupe, drawn on by negligence. To draw out. To protract; to lengthen; to expand or stretch out; as, to draw out hot iron. - To induce by artifice, or apparent motive; as, to draw out a person's conversational powers. - To draw up. To compose or set forth in a formal manner; to form in writing; to draught; as, to draw up a will.-( Mil . ) To form in order of battle; to arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array; as, an army drawn up in battle. Drawn butter . Butter melted for table-use. - Drawn game; drawn battle . A match or conflict contested with equal spirit, so that neither party wins. - To draw a bow. To discharge an arrow, bolt, or shaft, from a bow, by drawing the string to its utmost tension, and then letting it go. - To draw interest, or dividends . To be entitled to receive interest on money invested or deposited in the public funds, . - To draw back . (Com.) To receive back, as the duty paid on certain goods for shipment and exportation. -v.n. To pull; to exert motive force in drawing; to drag with strength; to haul; as, the ship's sails draw well. "An heifer,... which hath not drawn in the yoke."- Deut . xxi. 3. -To act as a weight or incentive; to act as an attractive force; as, the new play draws crowded houses. - To contract; to cause to shrink. - To move; to advance; to make progre ; literally, to draw one's self; - used adverbially, and prepositionally. - To have draught or current, as a chimney; as, the fire draws well. - To unsheathe a sword or other weapon carried in a scabbard. To use or practise the art of delineating figures; to sketch; to form pictorial representations; as, to draw a profile. - To make a written requisition for payment of money; -in most cases preceding on ; as, to draw on a banker.- To draw or come together to be collected or amalgamated. "They draw together in a globose form."-Black more. -To admit the action of pulling or exercising; as, your pipe draws easily. To take a card from a pack; to take a chance in a lottery; as, to draw a court-card. (Med.) To collect the matter of an ulcer or absce ; to cause to suppurate; to excite to inflammation, mar turation, or discharge. To draw off . To empty; also, to retire or retreat; as, to draw off the liquid contents of a cask, to draw off troops. To draw back . To move backwards; to retreat; as, to draw back from participation in anything. - Te draw near, or nigh . To approach; to come close to; as, "My fate draws nigh." ( Add is on .) - To draw on . To go forward; to advance; as, time draws on. - To draw up. To form in order, disposition, or array; as, he drew up his troops in echelon; a document correctly drawn up. n. Act of drawing; draught. - The lot or chance drawn; as, he drew a blank. - A drawbridge. See DRAWBRIDGE. Drawable, a . That may be drawn. Drawback, n . Any lo of advantage, or deduction from succe or profit. (Com.) An allowance made by the govt. to merchants on the re-exportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which in some cases consist of the whole, in others of a part, of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. For the various Acts of Congre which regulate D. , consult Brightly, Dig . U. S. Laws . Draw-bolt, n. ( Mach .) Same as COUPLING-PIN, q. v. Draw'-bore, n. ( Joinery .) The pinning a mortise and tenon, by piercing the hole through the tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks from the abutment in which the shoulder is to come in contact. -v. a. (Joinery.) To make a draw-bore in; as, to draw bore a mortise.