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Webster 1913 Edition
Drawn
Drawn
,p.
p.
& Adj.
See
Draw
, Verb.
T.
& I.
Drawn butter
, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy.
– Drawn fowl
, an eviscerated fowl.
– Drawn game
or Drawn battle
one in which neither party wins; one equally contested.
– Drawn fox
, one driven from cover.
Shak.
– Drawn work
, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drawn
DRAWN
,pp.
1.
Pulled; hauled; allured; attracted; delineated; extended; extracted; derived; deduced; written.2.
Equal, where each party takes his own stake; as a drawn game.3.
Having equal advantage, and neither party a victory; as a drawn battle.4.
With a sword drawn.5.
Moved aside, as a curtain; unclosed, or closed.6.
Eviscerated; as a drawn fox.7.
Induced, as by a motive; as, men are drawn together by similar views, or by motives of interest.Drawn and quartered, drawn on a sled, and cut into quarters.
Definition 2024
drawn
drawn
English
Verb
drawn
- past participle of draw
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
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Adjective
drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)
- Appearing agitated and unwell
Translations
appearing agitated and unwell, haggard
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Most common English words before 1923: bit · Indian · produce · #826: drawn · field · street · attempt