Word Meanings - FINEDRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

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• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• SUBTILTY
  1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. 3. Cunning; skill;
• OVERNICE
  Excessively nice; fastidious. Bp. Hall. -- O"ver*nice"ly, adv. -- O"ver*nice"ness, n.
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• FINEDRAWN
  Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
• 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.