The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawn \Drawn\, p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i.
Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy.
Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl.
Drawn game or Drawn battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested.
Drawn fox, one driven from cover.
--Shak.
Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.
WordNet
n. butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids [syn: clarified butter]
Wikipedia
Drawn butter is melted butter, often served as a sauce for steamed seafood. Some cooks restrict the term to clarified butter; while others insist that it should not be clarified.
When it is served with seafood, diners often add lemon juice to it.
Usage examples of "drawn butter".
By this sacrifice of their habits and prejudices, they purchased a free admission into the colony of Hadrian, and more firmly cemented their union with the Catholic church.
On the bedside table was a dish of drawn butter and the remains of coldwater lobster tails.
Lemon and a few sprigs of herbs lay on a small plate next to a stack of sour bread toast and a bowl of lightly steaming drawn butter.
I like them with drawn butter to which I add a dash of the sour lime sauce and a few drops of walnut pickle liquor, maybe a fleck of garlic.
Then I'll serve this one with drawn butter and I'll see what I can do tomorrow, sir.
Her favorite, stuffed lobster with drawn butter, salad, and—.
They'd be better with drawn butter, but that had never caught on in the Adriatic region.
As near as I can tell, he appears to be pulling a lobster tail out of the shell with a little fork and dipping it in drawn butter .