Word Meanings - DRAUGHTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 .

DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
VESICATORY
Tending, or having power, to raise a blister. -- n.
DRAUGHT
The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden. 2. That which is drawn; as: That which is taken by sweeping with a net. Launch out into the deep,
DRAUGHTSMAN
1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks
DRAUGHTBOARD
A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
DRAUGHTHOUSE
A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. 2 Kings x. 27.
DRAUGHTY
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
DRAUGHTS
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 .
INDRAUGHT
1. An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.