Word Meanings - AIR-DRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.
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- DRAWN
See PATTERN - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - DAGGER
A mark of reference in the form of a dagger . It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk. Dagger moth , any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit - DRAWNET
A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb. - INDRAWN
Drawn in. - CUBDRAWN
Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak. - LONG-DRAWN
Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable. - SOLID-DRAWN
Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube. - AIR-DRAWN
Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak. - FINEDRAWN
Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.