(b) (Mil.) The force drawn; a detachment; — in this sense usually written draft. (c) The quantity drawn
in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught.
Sterne.
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired.
Goldsmith. (d) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
Macaulay.
No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
South. (e) (Com.) An order for the payment of money; — in this sense almost always written draft. (f) A current
of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. Thackeray.
He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
Dickens. 3. That which draws; as: (a) A team of oxen or horses. Blackstone. (b) A sink or drain; a privy. Shak.
Matt. xv. 17. (c) pl. (Med.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
4. Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught.
Mortimer. 5. (Naut.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially
when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
6. (Com.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
7. A move, as at chess or checkers. [Obs.] Chaucer.
8. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury
to the mold.
9. (Masonry) See Draft, n., 7.
Angle of draught, the angle made with the plane over which a body is drawn by the line in which the
pulling force acts, when the latter has the direction best adapted to overcome the obstacles of friction
and the weight of the body. - - Black draught. See under Black, a. — Blast draught, or Forced
draught, the draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases
from above it. — Natural draught, the draught produced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight,
into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. — On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood
(as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. — Sheer draught. See
under Sheer.
Draught
(Draught), a.
1. Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
3. Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
4. Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; — said of
ale, cider, and the like.
