Word Meanings - DRAUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden. 2. That which is drawn; as: That which is taken by sweeping with a net. Launch out into the deep,

Additional info about word: DRAUGHT

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden. 2. That which is drawn; as: That which is taken by sweeping with a net. Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. Luke v. 4. He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught. L'Estrange. (more info) 1. The act of drawing or pulling; as: The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple. The drawing of a bowstring. She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught. Spenser. Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish. Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left. Sir M. Hale. The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking. In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore. Trench. A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRAUGHT)

• Drink
• Imbibe
• swallow
• quaff
• absorb
• drain
• draught

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRAUGHT)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill

Related words: (words related to DRAUGHT)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• REPLENISHMENT
  1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• IMBIBE
  1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• INUNDATE
  pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• TOP-DRAINING
  The act or practice of drining the surface of land.