Definition of draught

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Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2).

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Protocol :: Protocol (n.) The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction..
Draught :: Draught (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses..
Draughtsman :: Draughtsman (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.
Draff :: Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught..
Draw :: Draw (n.) The act of drawing; draught.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught..
Draught :: Draught (n.) That which is draw.
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily..
Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Draff :: Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught..
Hoveling :: Hoveling (n.) A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two..
Suck :: Suck (n.) A small draught.
Draught :: Draught (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet..
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Leeboard :: Leeboard (n.) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc..
Protocol :: Protocol (v. i.) To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols..
Carouse :: Carouse (n.) A large draught of liquor.
Graticulation :: Graticulation (n.) The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions..
Percheron :: Percheron (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman..
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