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Definitions of: draft

Definition: The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

Definition: A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

Definition: An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

Definition: An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.

Definition: A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

Definition: The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

Definition: A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

Definition: A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

Definition: The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

Definition: Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

Definition: A current of air. Same as Draught.

Definition: A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

Definition: The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

Definition: A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.

Definition: To draw the outline of; to delineate.

Definition: To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

Definition: To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.

Definition: To transfer by draft.

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