Drawing

Draw´ing

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

(Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

A drawing of tea
a small portion of tea for steeping.

Drawing knife
See in the Vocabulary.

Drawing paper
(Fine Arts) a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting.

Drawing slate
a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; - called also black chalk, or drawing chalk.

Free-hand drawing
a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.

Noun	1.	drawing - an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"
	2.	drawing - a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"
	3.	drawing - the creation of artistic drawings; "he learned drawing from his father" Synonyms: draftsmanship, drafting
	4.	drawing - players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots Synonyms: lottery
	5.	drawing - act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well" Synonyms: drawing off
	6.	drawing - the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling Synonyms: draught, draft

DRAWING. A representation on paper, card, or other substance.
2. The Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires all persons who apply for letters patent for an invention, to accompany their petitions or specifications with a drawing or drawings of the whole, and written references, when the nature of the case admits of drawings.

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