Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DRAUGHT, n. [draft; from draw, drag.]

1. The act of drawing; as, a horse or ox fit for draught.
2. The quality of being drawn; as, a cart or plow of easy draught.
3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquor drank at once.
5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c. described on paper. [Qu. Ir. dreach, W. dryc.] – Encyc.
6. Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil. – Dryden.
7. The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.
8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as, a draught of fishes. Luke v.
9. The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow. – Camden.
10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army, or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]
11. A sink or drain. – Matth. xv.
12. An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]
13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight. – Encyc.
15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.] – Spenser.
16. A writing composed.
17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.
18. A sinapism; a mild vesicatory.