Word Meanings - FINEDRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
Related words: (words related to FINEDRAWN)
- DRAWN
See PATTERN - SUBTILTY
1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. 3. Cunning; skill; - OVERNICE
Excessively nice; fastidious. Bp. Hall. -- O"ver*nice"ly, adv. -- O"ver*nice"ness, n. - DRAWNET
A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb. - FINEDRAWN
Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations. - 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.