drawing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DRAWING, participle present tense Pulling; hauling; attracting; delineating. DRAWING, noun 1. The act of pulling, hauling, or attracting. 2. The act of representing the appearance or figures of objects on a plain surface, by means of lines and shades, as with a pencil, crayon, pen, compasses, etc.; delineation.
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