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..
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..
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..
Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
Draughted :: Draughted (imp. & p. p.) of Draugh.
Draughtsman :: Draughtsman (n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind..
Potion :: Potion (n.) A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine..
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..
Hood :: Hood (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind..
Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
Potation :: Potation (n.) A draught.
Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily..
Indraught :: Indraught (n.) A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.
Draught :: Draught (n.) That which is draw.
Draught :: Draught (n.) 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..
Suck :: Suck (n.) A small draught.
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc..
Draff :: Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught..
Evener :: Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast..
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