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▪ I. unˈdrawn, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
†1. ? That has never drawn a plough. Obs.
1527Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) I. 32 A heffur in calf and ij bolokks of the best sort undrawen.
2. a. Not disembowelled.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 25 At the tyme of yeare the felde⁓fares fede only of Iuniper berries the people Eate the felde⁓fares undrawen.
b. Unmilked.
1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. ii. 90 Noontide would come, And thwart Silenus find his goats undrawn.
3. Not drawn from a receptacle; untapped.
a1595Southwell Christs Bloody Sweat 3 Fat soil, full spring, sweet olive, grape of bliss,..Untill'd, undrawn, unstamp'd, untouch'd of press. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. 636 Beer undrawn, and beards unmown. 1868R. Buchanan Tragic Dramas, Wallace i. iii, Even at the first assault,..A drop of blood undrawn, the dastard fled.
4. a. Not drawn, dragged, or pulled along, out, etc. Also with forth.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 751 Forth rush'd with whirl-wind sound The Chariot of Paternal Deitie,..Wheele within Wheele undrawn. 1730Act 3 Geo. II, c. 25 §11 The same Names shall be..returned to the former Box or Glass, there to be kept with the other Names remaining at that Time undrawn. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iv. Slawkenb. T., Was there in the great arsenal of chance, one single engine left undrawn forth to torture your curiosities? 1837Lytton Athens II. 219 Lamenting..that his sword was as yet undrawn against the invader. 1899Westm. Gaz. 16 June 2/1 The casting-line should be of the finest undrawn gut.
b. Of a lottery: cf. draw v. 34.
1730Fielding Author's Farce i. i, A Benefit-Ticket in an un-drawn Lottery.
c. Of curtains, etc.: open, not drawn across the window.
1923E. Bowen Encounters 153 Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses. 1940M. Sadleir Fanny by Gaslight ii. 311 The curtains were undrawn and the daylight dim... She rang for the curtains to be drawn and the gas lit. 1954‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 84 The Utrecht hangings of scarlet velvet and gold which..festooned the lower floor windows..were undrawn. 1968J. Fleming Kill or Cure xv. 203 The thick velvet undrawn curtains.
5. Not delineated or depicted.
1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 621 The Death-bed of the just! is yet undrawn By mortal hand.
▪ II. unˈdrawn, ppl. a.2
[f. undraw v.]
Drawn back, withdrawn.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. iii. 30, I have told thee what were my transports, when the undrawn bolt presented to me my long-expected goddess. |