Drawing

Act of pulling, hauling, or attracting. Distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery, raffle, . (Fine Arts.) The art of representing any object by means of lines circumscribing its boundaries. D. is of course the foundation of everything in art, including within it a knowledge of perspective, anatomy, and proportion, and, when acquired, a given proportionable power of drawing correctly what we imagine. The human figure is the principal object upon which a student should be first employed; for he who can correctly draw that will not be at a lo in representing anything else he may wish. He who endeavors to copy nicely the figure before him, not only acquires a habit of exactne and precision, but is continually advancing in his knowledge of the human figure; and though he seems to superficial observers to make a slower progre , he will be found at last capable of adding (without running into capricious wildne ) that grace and beauty which is nece ary to be given to his more finished works, and which cannot be gotten but by an attentive and well-compared study of the human form. In the great age of Greek art, D. was a regular branch, and considered one of the most e ential, of the education of every gentleman. ( Pliny xxxv. 36.) apprehension; as, a dreaded moment. -v. n. To be in great fear. "Dread not, neither be afraid of them." - Deut . 1. 29.