2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards
itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
Shak.
All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart.
Dryden. 3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or
take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well,
etc.
The drew out the staves of the ark.
2 Chron. v. 9.
Draw thee waters for the siege.
Nahum iii. 14.
I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood.
Wiseman. (b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Ex. xv. 9. (c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
Cheyne.
Until you had drawn oaths from him.
Shak. (d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to
derive.
We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
Burke. (e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw
money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the
drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he
drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots.
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
Freeman. 4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated.
Wiseman. (b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
King. 5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
"Where I first drew air." Milton.
Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan.
Dryden.
