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Sniff :: Sniff (v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt..

Knobstick :: Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union..

Astringe :: Astringe (v. t.) To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

Hood :: Hood (n.) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..

Intractile :: Intractile (a.) Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist

Drawling :: Drawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw.

Projection :: Projection (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each..

Tap :: Tap (n.) A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause..

Cat :: Cat (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

Subtartarean :: Subtangent (n.) The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

Shading :: Shading (n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing..

Brace :: Brace (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves..

Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action..

Counterdrawn :: Counterdrawn (p. p.) of Counterdra.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

Bullist :: Bullist (n.) A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.

Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal..

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