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- English Word Drastic Definition Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
- English Word Drastic Definition A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
- English Word Drasty Definition Filthy; worthless.
- English Word Draugh Definition See Draft.
- English Word Draught Definition The act of drawing or pulling
- English Word Draught Definition The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
- English Word Draught Definition The drawing of a bowstring.
- English Word Draught Definition Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
- English Word Draught Definition The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
- English Word Draught Definition A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
- English Word Draught Definition The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
- English Word Draught Definition The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
- English Word Draught Definition That which is drawn
- English Word Draught Definition That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
- English Word Draught Definition The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
- English Word Draught Definition The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
- English Word Draught Definition A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
- English Word Draught Definition An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
- English Word Draught Definition A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
- English Word Draught Definition That which draws
- English Word Draught Definition A team of oxen or horses.
- English Word Draught Definition A sink or drain; a privy.
- English Word Draught Definition A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
- English Word Draught Definition Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
- English Word Draught Definition 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.
- English Word Draught Definition An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
- English Word Draught Definition A move, as at chess or checkers.
- English Word Draught Definition The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
- English Word Draught Definition See Draft, n., 7.
- English Word Draught Definition Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.