Word Meanings - HACHURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching. (more info) Arts)

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• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• DRAW
  draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a 1. To cause to move continuously by force
• SHADING
  1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
• DRAWLINK
  See
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• ADENOTOMIC
  Pertaining to adenotomy.
• UNDRAW
  To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.