Crossword clues for draught
draught
- A serving of drink (usually alcoholic)
- The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- A dose of liquid medicine
- A large and hurried swallow
- A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle)
- The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- The act of drinking
- Beer serving in a pub
- Current type of beer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angle \An"gle\ ([a^][ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.]
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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
Into the utmost angle of the world.
--Spenser.To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
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(Geom.)
The figure made by. two lines which meet.
The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
--Dryden. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological ``houses.'' [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
[AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. --Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90[deg]. Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. Alternate angles. See Alternate. Angle bar.
(Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet.
--Knight.-
(Mach.) Same as Angle iron.
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall.
Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together.
--Knight.Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted.
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle.
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata.
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines.
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened.
Facial angle. See under Facial.
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure.
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line.
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle.
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90[deg].
Optic angle. See under Optic.
Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines.
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a quarter circle).
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point.
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere.
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye.
For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor. 2 The act of drawing, or pulling back. 3 That which is drawn. 4 That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses. 5 Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. 6 The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. 7 A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft. 8 A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle). 9 (context maritime English) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull. 10 An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow. 11 The act of drawing in a net for fish. 12 (context British English) A game piece used in the game of draughts. 13 (context Australia English) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale. 14 (context UK Ireland English) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can. 15 (context dated English) A dose of medicine in liquid form. 16 (context medicine obsolete English) A mild vesicatory. 17 The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould. 18 (context obsolete English) A privy. 19 (context obsolete English) A drawing or picture. 20 (context obsolete English) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. 21 (context military English) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft. 22 (context military English) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft. vb. 1 To draw out; to call forth. See (term draft English). 2 To diminish or exhaust by drawing. 3 To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
WordNet
n. a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft" [syn: draft, potation, tipple]
a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp" [syn: gulp, draft, swig]
a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle) [syn: draft]
the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) [syn: draft]
a dose of liquid medicine; "he took a sleeping draft" [syn: draft]
the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling [syn: draft, drawing]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "draught".
It was not sleep, but it served the purpose, and when in an hour or two a draught of cool air roused me, I awoke, feeling more myself again.
The armour would be rusty, and there was a sort of draught down the back of his neck where the helmet screwed on.
The draught of hot air pushed up the swarm, but the bees, once they were through the barrier, suddenly dropped - hot, furious bees.
A young man was in the lead, the only person mounted, his horse an aged roan draught animal with a bowed spine and botfly sores on its neck.
The millets are objectionable as nurse crops through the denseness of the shade which they furnish and also because of the heavy draught which they make on soil moisture.
Irish barge, I think, and if it become obvious that the mounting of demicannon will dangerously deepen the draught, well .
She had seen the draught prepared which it was so desirable that Denbigh should take, and it now stood rejected on a table, where it could be seen through the open door of his room.
Jiondor, Risalyn spent the night with the sick in Pointhill, and her draughts and decoctions have worked wonders.
The draughts of stout blended into draughts of ale and beer and wine, a stream running backward through the years and disappearing into a swallowhole, down and down into the darks of the earth.
What menders could not do with all their draughts and poultices, farmers and farriers, sailors and wranglers, sheepherds and cowherds and goatherds now did with a laying on of hands.
Mademoiselle de Villefort prepared all the cooling draughts which Madame de Saint-Meran took, and Madame de Saint-Meran is dead.
The wind, which only broke in puffs and draughts into that deep well of building, tossed the light of the candle to and fro about their steps, until they came into the shelter of the theatre, where they sat down silently to wait.
I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.
To be less abstract - Let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected.
Then Carter did a wicked thing, offering his guileless host so many draughts of the moon-wine which the Zoogs had given him that the old man became irresponsibly talkative.