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.
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{ Draw"ing knife" (?), Draw"knife` (?) }, n. 1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
Draw"ing-room` (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room.] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing- room.
He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer.
Macaulay.
Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.
Drawl (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drawled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Drawl, v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Landor.
Drawl, n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Draw"latch` (?), n. A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).
Drawl"ing (?), n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.
Draw"link` (?), n. Same as Drawbar (b).
Draw"loom` (?), n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.