Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of drawing or pulling 2. (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. 3. (n.) The drawing of a bowstring. 4. (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish. 5. (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking. 6. (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. 7. (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) 8. (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. 9. (n.) That which is drawn 10. (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net. 11. (n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft. 12. (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation. 13. (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation. 14. (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft. 15. (n.) A current of air moving through an enclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. 16. (n.) That which draws 17. (n.) A team of oxen or horses. 18. (n.) A sink or drain; a privy. 19. (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet. 20. (n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. 21. (n.) 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. 22. (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4. 23. (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers. 24. (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold. 25. (n.) See Draft, n., 7. 26. (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks. 27. (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. 28. (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses. 29. (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like. 30. (v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft. 31. (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing. 32. (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DRAUGHT draft (aphedron; Matthew 15:17 Mark 7:19): "Closet," "sink" or "privy" (Rheims), literally, "place for sitting apart" (compare 2 Kings 10:27, "draught-house," and Mishna "water-house"). According to the Mishna, Jehu turned the temple of Baal in Samaria into public latrines, "waterhouses." Mark adds here (Mark 7:19) that by this saying Jesus cleansed all articles of food, i.e., declared them to be clean.

Multi-Version Concordance Draught (8 Occurrences) Matthew 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? (KJV ASV DBY WBS) Mark 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? (KJV ASV DBY WBS) Luke 5:4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. (KJV ASV WBS YLT) Luke 5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: (KJV WEY DBY WBS) Revelation 18:6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. (See RSV) 2 Kings 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT) Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, full of mixture, and He poureth out of the same; surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them. (See RSV) Haggai 1:11 And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.' (YLT)