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Sketch :: Sketch (n.) An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work..

Draught :: Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4..

Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider..

Graticule :: Graticule (n.) A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions..

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..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc..

Draughts :: Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers..

Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..

Draughty :: Draughty (a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room..

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..

Plot :: Plot (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale..

Tiff :: Tiff (n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor..

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..

Indraught :: Indraught (n.) An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet.

Quaff :: Quaff (v. t.) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

Circean :: Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught..

Draught :: Draught (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

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..

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions..

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..

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