Draught

(n.) The act of drawing or pulling

(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.

(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.

(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

(n.) That which draws

(n.) A team of oxen or horses.

(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

(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.

(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.

(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.

(n.) See Draft, n., 7.

(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

爱丽丝录入

• When you go out close the door, for there is a decided draught. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You're letting in a devil of a draught here! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The surgeon gave him a composing draught, and ordered us to leave him undisturbed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• With a hide like that draughts don't make any difference. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Everybody that day did not include Mr. Bulstrode, whose health could not well endure crowds and draughts. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She insisted that the Doctor should call twice a day; and deluged her patient with draughts every two hours. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He will give you almost as many men as you like at draughts, and beat you easily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And, interrupted Fitzgerald, confine his attention to his draughts and pills. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But is the just man or the skilful player a more useful and better partner at a game of draughts? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Edison replied that he intended to do that himself, and invited Mr. Mallory to go with him to one of the draughting-rooms on an upper floor of the laboratory. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Adjacent to these rooms are several others devoted to physical and mechanical experiments, together with a draughting-room. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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