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- English Word Drave Definition of Drive
- English Word Dravida Definition A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
- English Word Dravidian Definition Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
- English Word Draw Definition To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
- English Word Draw Definition 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.
- English Word Draw Definition 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.
- English Word Draw Definition To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
- English Word Draw Definition To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
- English Word Draw Definition To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
- English Word Draw Definition 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.
- English Word Draw Definition 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.
- English Word Draw Definition To select by the drawing of lots.
- English Word Draw Definition To remove the contents of
- English Word Draw Definition To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
- English Word Draw Definition To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
- English Word Draw Definition To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
- English Word Draw Definition To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
- English Word Draw Definition To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
- English Word Draw Definition To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
- English Word Draw Definition To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.