undrawnadj.1
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [adjective] > working > that has never drawn plough
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1528 Will of Hamnet Haryngton in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 32 A heffur in calf and ij bolokks of the best sort undrawen.
2.
a. Not disembowelled.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [adjective] > disembowelled > not
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1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 25 At the tyme of yeare the felde~fares fede only of Iuniper berries the people Eate the felde~fares undrawen.
b. Unmilked.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > milked > not
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 76 Noontide would come, And thwart Silenus find his goats undrawn.
3. Not drawn from a receptacle; untapped.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective] > not drawn from a receptacle
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a1595 R. Southwell Christs Bloody Sweat 3 Fat soil, full spring, sweet olive, grape of bliss,..Untill'd, undrawn, unstamp'd, untouch'd of press.
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 636 Beer undrawn, and beards unmown.
1868 R. Buchanan Wallace in Tragic Dramas i. iii Even at the first assault,..A drop of blood undrawn, the dastard fled.
4.
a. Not drawn, dragged, or pulled along, out, etc. Also with forth.
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 751 Forth rush'd with whirl-wind sound The Chariot of Paternal Deitie,..Wheele within Wheele undrawn . View more context for this quotation
1730 Act 3 Geo. II c. 25 §11 The same Names shall be..returned to the former Box or Glass, there to be kept with the other Names remaining at that Time undrawn.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. Slawkenbergius's Tale 54 Was there in the great arsenal of chance, one single engine left undrawn forth to torture your curiosities.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 219 Lamenting..that his sword was as yet undrawn against the invader.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 2/1 The casting-line should be of the finest undrawn gut.
b. Of a lottery: cf. draw v. 61.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [adjective] > not drawn
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1730 H. Fielding Author's Farce i. i. 1 A Benefit-Ticket in an un-drawn Lottery.
c. Of curtains, etc.: open, not drawn across the window.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [adjective] > having hangings > having curtains > drawn > not
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1923 E. Bowen Encounters 153 Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.
1940 M. Sadleir Fanny by Gaslight ii. 311 The curtains were undrawn and the daylight dim... She rang for the curtains to be drawn and the gas lit.
1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 84 The Utrecht hangings of scarlet velvet and gold which..festooned the lower floor windows..were undrawn.
1968 J. Fleming Kill or Cure xv. 203 The thick velvet undrawn curtains.
5. Not delineated or depicted.
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 38 The Deathbed of the Just! is yet undrawn By mortal Hand.
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undrawnadj.2
Drawn back, withdrawn.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > opened > drawn back (of a bolt)
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. vi. 54 I have told thee what were my transports, when the undrawn bolt presented to me my long-expected goddess.
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