drawn

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DRAWN, participle passive [See Draw.] 1. Pulled; hauled; allured; attracted; delineated; extended; extracted; derived; deduced; written. 2. Equal, where each party takes his own stake; as a drawn game. 3. Having equal advantage, and neither party a victory; as a drawn battle. 4. With a sword drawn 5. Moved aside, as a curtain; unclosed, or closed. 6. Eviscerated; as a drawn fox. 7. Induced, as by a motive; as, men are drawn together by similar views, or by motives of interest. DRAWN and quartered, drawn on a sled, and cut into quarters.
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