Word Meanings - AIR-DRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

Related words: (words related to AIR-DRAWN)

• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• DAGGER
  A mark of reference in the form of a dagger . It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk. Dagger moth , any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• LONG-DRAWN
  Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.
• SOLID-DRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• AIR-DRAWN
  Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.
• FINEDRAWN
  Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.