Verb

(lb) To move or develop something.

#To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

#*(Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

#*:A flattering painter who made it his care / To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

#*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

#*:Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, / Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?

#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

#To deduce or infer.

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#(lb) (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

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#(lb) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

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#To take into the lungs; to inhale.

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#*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

#*1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)

#*:So always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath

#(lb) To move; to come or go.

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#(lb) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

#*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

#*:We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.

# To withdraw.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.

#(lb) To draw up (a document).

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Clerk, draw a deed of gift.

(lb) To exert or experience force.

#(lb) To drag, pull.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw , with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.

#*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter VIII

#*:Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.

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#*:At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.

#(lb) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

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#To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

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#To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

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#(lb) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

#(of curtains, etc.) To close.

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#(lb) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

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To remove or separate or displace.

#To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

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#*Bible, (w) iv. 11

#*:The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

#*(George Cheyne) (1671-1743)

#*:Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.

#To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

#*1705 , Richard Wiseman], ''[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=P5EIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA303&dq=%22wiseman+on+tumours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kIu-UsSULcvbkAWjoYDICw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22wiseman%20on%20tumours%22&f=false Tumours, Gun Shot Wounds, &c.

#*:Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated.

#(lb) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:until you had drawn oaths from him

#To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Greater hulks draw deep.

# To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

# To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

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#(lb) To consume, for example, power.

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(lb) To change in size or shape.

#To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:How long her face is drawn !

#*(John Richard Green) (1837-1883)

#*:the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee

#(lb) To become contracted; to shrink.

#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

#*:to draw into less room

(lb) To attract or be attracted.

#To attract.

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#*, chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw' freaks, same as molasses ' draws flies.}}

#*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

#(lb) To search for game.

#*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man) , Penguin 2013, p.87:

#*:On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.

#To cause.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=July 3, author=Piers Newbury, work=BBC Sport

, title= Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final , passage=In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.}}

#(lb) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

#*:Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.

(Usually as draw on' or ' draw upon ): to rely on; utilize as a source.

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*(John Jay) (1745-1829)

*:You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

To disembowel.

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*:In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.

To end a game in a (with neither side winning).

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*{{quote-book, year=1922, year_published=2010 , edition=HTML, author=(Edgar Rice Burroughs)

, title= The Chessmen of Mars , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief;

(lb) A random process.

#To select by the drawing of lots.

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#*1784 , (Edward Augustus Freeman), [https://archive.org/details/essayonparliamen00edinuoft An essay on parliamentary representation, and the magistracies of our boroughs royal:

#*:Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn .

#(lb) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

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#(lb) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out .

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(lb) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.

Verb

To move, or be moved, away.

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#* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke

#*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) :

#*:Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre.

#*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , p.262:

#*:The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow.

#To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

#*1526 , (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 4:

#*:As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers).

#Specifically, to throw down or aside.

#*, II.xii:

#*:So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast , / That all in peeces it was broken fond.

#*1611 , (Bible) , Authorized Version, (w) VI.30:

#*:it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

#*1930 , "Sidar the Madman", Time , 19 Dec.:

#*:Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

#*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

#*:Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

#(label) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.

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#*1822 , "Life of Donald McBane", (w, Blackwood's Magazine) , vol.12, p.745:

#*:when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons.

#*2002 , Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian , 2 March:

#*:You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

#(label) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

#(label) To vomit.

#*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

#*:These versesmake me ready to cast .

#(label) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

#*(Bible), (w) xix.48

#*:Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

#(label) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

#* (1665-1728)

#*:Thiscasts a sulphureous smell.

To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

*1595 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , I.11:

*:She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

*1594 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

*, II.17:

*:I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

To predict, to decide, to plan.

#(label) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

#*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

#*:he isa perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

#*:John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

#*1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), (Quinx) , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

#*:He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

#(label) To plan, intend.

#*, Book VII.2:

#*:"Fayre damesell, I thanke you hartely," seyde Sir Launcelot, "but truly," seyde he, "I caste me never to be wedded man."

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:

#*:I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

#* (1628–1699)

#*:The cloisterhad, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

#(label) To assign (a role in a play or performance).

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#(label) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

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#To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

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#*(Bible), (w) i.29

#*:Shecast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

#(label) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The government I cast upon my brother.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) iv. 22

#*:Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

#(label) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

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#* (1773-1850)

#*:She was cast to be hanged.

#*Dr. (Henry More) (1614-1687)

#*:Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast .

#To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

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#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.

*1950 , "A Global View", Time , 24 April:

*:The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

*1960 , (Lawrence Durrell), :

*:A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

(label) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

*:being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , V.20:

*:The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.

*1923 , "Rodin's Death", Time , 24 March:

*:One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

# To stereotype or electrotype.

To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).

*(Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)

*:Stuff is said to cast or warp whenit alters its flatness or straightness.

(label) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.

To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).

(label) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

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(label) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

*:He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

(label) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

(some are still missing examples)

(label) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.