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drawn, ppl. a.|drɔːn|
[see draw v.]
1. a. Moved by traction; dragged, hauled, pulled; attracted; extracted; protracted; strained, stretched, made thin by tension. Also in comb., as long-drawn, well-drawn; with advbs., as drawn-up; drawn butter, melted butter; drawn-in, (of a rug or mat) made of small cuttings of material drawn through a canvas foundation; drawn-on (see quot. 1940).
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 10 Drawyn grwel. Ibid. 42 Take þe drawyn Eyroun. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xviii. xi, Her heer was bryght as the drawne wyre. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 129 There's..no more truth in thee, then in a drawne Fox. 1648Gage West Ind. xii. 64 Ventured himselfe in a Coach with drawne curtaines. 1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 25 Have a little good drawn Gravy in a Bason. 1753Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 240 He has no scruple about fish or drawn gravy. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vii. xvi, Drawn, vapid, cold tea. 1826in Doc. Hist. Amer. Industr. Soc. N.Y. (1910) I. 299 Cod fish and potatoes, with drawn butter and eggs. 1864Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXV. ii. 363 Well-drawn dry wheat-straw. 1879Drawn butter [see butter n.1 1 d]. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 247 Tall, drawn-up saplings. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. 281 Your brains.. sloshing around in your head same as so much drawn butter. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii, A long drawn-out tale. 1901Harper's Mag. CII. 661/2 Her mother had only drawn-in rugs, which Ellen had watched her make. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 265/2 Drawn on, said of a book cover which is attached by gluing down the back; if the end-papers are pasted down it is said to be drawn on solid. 1956F. C. Avis Bookman's Conc. Dict. 88/2 Drawn-on cover, a separate cover glued onto a stabbed inside with flat back; as seen in most magazines.
b. Bot. (See quot. 1900.)
1880W. J. May Greenhouse Management 142 The plants are kept as near the glass as possible, so that they do not become drawn. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 82/1 Drawn, applied to attenuated shoots, diminished and etiolated, often increased in length. 1962Listener 26 Apr. 750/1 Do not let the seedlings become weak and drawn.
2. Of a sword: Pulled out of the sheath, naked. † Of a person: Having his sword drawn (obs.).
c1200Ormin 16284 Þatt draȝhenn swerd wass inn an hannd. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxviii. 159 Robert the Brus pursued hym with a drawe swerd. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 402 Where art thou?.. Here villaine, drawne and readie. 1610― Temp. ii. i. 307 Hoa..why are you drawn? 1838James Robber vi, The stranger had in his hand a drawn sword. 1890A. Gissing Village Hampden II. xi. 243 We all live now at swords drawn. [Cf. dagger 2.]
3. Of a battle or match: Undecided.[The origin of this use is uncertain. It is suggested that drawn = withdrawn: cf. draw v. 37.] 1610D. Carleton Let. 17 June in Crt. & T. Jas. I (1848) I. 115 It concluded, as it is many times in a cock pit, with a drawn match; for nothing was in the end put to the question. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. Sum. Concl. (1739) 201 A drawn battle, wherein he that continueth last in the Field, is glad to be gone away. 1650Evelyn Diary 15 Oct., They shot so exact, that it was a drawn match. 1709Steele Tatler No. 18 ⁋6 Our greatest Captains have been glad to come off with a drawn Battle. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. (1859) I. 37 If he lost the main battle, he..regained so much of it as to make it a drawn one. 1835Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 20 We played a drawn game at chess.
4. Traced (as a line), delineated. Chiefly in comb., as ill-drawn.
1571Digges Pantom. i. xxvi. H ij b, Making so many Diuisions in your drawne line, as there are Miles. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 46 Muche difference is betwixt the drawen platte and the builded house. 1895Athenæum 18 May 648/3 Deftly drawn studies of birds.
5. Disembowelled.
1789G. White Selborne ii. xlviii. (1853) 292 My specimen, when drawn and stuffed with pepper, weighed only four ounces and a quarter.
6. Subjected to tension.
1879E. K. Bates Egyptian Bonds I. vi. 130 With a white, ‘drawn’ look of pain on her face. 1885‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife vi. iv. (ed. 3) III. 147 His lips were drawn and stiff. 1894Baring-Gould Queen of Love I. 114 She looked at her father's drawn face, altered by pain.
7. Moulded by a drawing-machine. More widely, made or formed by drawing (see draw v. 5 b).
1893Daily News 24 Apr. 6/6 Stamped and drawn tin⁓ware..bowls, etc. are selling well for export. 1930Engineering 12 Dec. 755/3 Fourcault took out his first patents in 1904, and in 1913 a machine produced a substantial quantity of drawn sheet glass at the factory at Damprémy. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 130/1 Arc lamps now fitted with drawn-wire bulbs. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 265/2 Drawn-wire filament, an incandescent lamp filament, made by a wire-drawing process. 1960Times 21 Sept. 9/5 Carbon steel tubes (seamless and drawn-welded). 1962Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 31 Drawn glass, glass, usually in sheet form, made by a continuous mechanical drawing operation.
8. Gathered, in needle-work.
1830Advt. in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iv. 38 Whalebone drawn bonnets. 1852in Viscount Ingestre's Meliora I. 269 They were drawn-bonnet makers. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green x, A drawn silk bonnet of pale lavender. 1894Daily News 5 June 8/4 Her first bonnet..made of drawn white tulle. |