[f. EYE sb.1 + DRAUGHT.] A drawing or plan made by the eye, not by actual measurement.

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1773.  Gentl. Mag., 265. Eye Draught of the Solway Moss.

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1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 20, note. The print … appears to be made from an Eye Draught.

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1823.  P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 170. To take the dimensions of a place … make an eye-draught.

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1875.  Proctor, Expanse Heav., 273. The stars … being copied by eye-draughts from the charts.

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