2. Adjective. drawn out ¹
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Definition of Outdrawn
1. outdraw [v] - See also: outdraw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdrawn
Literary usage of Outdrawn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This stalk is merely the outdrawn termination of the body. It is about as long
as the whole of the rest of the animal, and it is from its extremity that the ..."
2. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"And while thus buzzing freely from fall to fall, he is frequently heard giving
utterance to a long outdrawn train of unmodulated notes, in no way connected ..."
3. The Mountains of California by John Muir (1907)
"And while thus buzzing freely from fall to fall, he is frequently heard giving
utterance to a long outdrawn train of unmodulated notes, in no way connected ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... into which the viscera do not pass, though the coelom is continued into it (fig.
9, <-). This stalk is merely the outdrawn termination of rhn ..."
5. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"... completed before a new interruption, a nest of cones, each smaller than the
last, arose in series like the outdrawn sections of an old- time spyglass. ..."
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