Draw"ing, n. 1.
The act of pulling, or attracting.
2. The act or the art of representing any
object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a
representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent
the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with
hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the
figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading
metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and
cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of
pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by
revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a
lottery.
&fist; Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of
compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for
drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial
representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master,
drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine,
drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen,
drawing pencil, etc.
A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for
steeping. -- Drawing knife. See in the
Vocabulary. -- Drawing paper (Fine
Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-
color painting. -- Drawing slate, a soft,
slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black
chalk, or drawing chalk. -- Free-hand
drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of
guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or
geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.
