draw (see also DRAWN; 8 is not pre-S.)
1.
intr. to pull
a vehicle, fig. applied to acting in concert
Troil. V. v. 44
“we together,”
Oth. IV. i. 68
“Think every bearded
fellow that's but yok'd May with
you.”
2.
to bend (a bow), pull
back (an arrow) on the string (freq.); also absol.
Tit. IV. iii. 3
“Look ye home
enough,”
63 “Now, masters,
draw.”
3.
intr. to draw the bow
across a fiddle Ado V. i.
131.
4.
(of a ship) to
displace so much water (absol.)
Troil. II. iii. 280
“greater hulks draw
deep.”
5.
to gather, collect,
assemble John IV. ii. 118, 1H4 III. i. 90, Troil. II. iii. 80,
Cor. II. iii. 261, Cæs. I. iii. 22.
6.
to withdraw
2H4 II. i. 166
“Go, wash thy face, and
draw thy action,”
3H6 V. i. 25, H8 V. iv. 62, Cym. IV. iii. 24*.
7.
=‘draw
liquor,’ be a drawer Wiv. I. iii. 11.
8.
to receive (money),
to win (a stake) Mer.V. IV. i.
87,
Wint. I. ii. 248
“the rich stake
drawn,”
Ham. IV. v. 141 (fig.),
Lr. I. i. 87
“to A third more
opulent than your sisters.”
9.
to bring (something
into a person's hands) Lr. III. iii.
24,
Cym. III. iii. 18
“Draws us a
profit.”
10.
to disembowel (usu.
quibblingly) Meas. II. i. 221 (cf.
sense 7), Ado III. ii. 22, John II. i. 504.
11.
to write out, frame,
compose MND. I. ii. 108, Mer.V. IV. i. 395, Shr. II. i. 127, R3 V. iii. 24.
