A knot; a fastening.
A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
Low shoes fastened with lacings.
To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.
To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
To make a tie; to make an equal score.
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.
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.
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.
To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
To remove the contents of
To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
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.
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.
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.
To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
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.
To withdraw.
To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.
To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.
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.
To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; - said of a blister, poultice, etc.
To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
To become contracted; to shrink.
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, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; - usually with on or upon.
To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
The act of drawing; draught.
A lot or chance to be drawn.
the act of drawing a lot or chance.
A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.
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.
The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;
That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.