[UN-1 8.]
† 1. ? That has never drawn a plough. Obs.
1527. Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.), I. 32. A heffur in calf and ij bolokks of the best sort undrawen.
2. a. Not disemboweled.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 25. At the tyme of yeare the feldefares fede only of Iuniper berries the people Eate the feldefares undrawen.
b. Unmilked.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. ii. 90. Noontide would come, And thwart Silenus find his goats undrawn.
3. Not drawn from a receptacle; untapped.
a. 1595. Southwell, Christs Bloodly Sweat, 3. Fat soil, full spring, sweet olive, grape of bliss,… Untill’d, undrawn, unstamp’d, untouch’d of press.
1809. Byron, Bards & Rev., 636. Beer undrawn, and beards unmown.
1868. R. Buchanan, Tragic Dramas, Wallace, I. iii. Even at the first assault,… A drop of blood undrawn, the dastard fled.
4. Not drawn, dragged, or pulled along, out, etc. Also with forth.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 751. Forth rush’d with whirl-wind sound The Chariot of Paternal Deitie,… Wheele within Wheele undrawn.
1730. Act 3 Geo. II., c. 25 § 11. The same Names shall be … returned to the former Box or Glass, there to be kept with the other Names remaining at that Time undrawn.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, IV. Slawkenb. T. Was there in the great arsenal of chance, one single engine left undrawn forth to torture your curiosities?
1837. Lytton, Athens, II. 219. Lamenting … that his sword was as yet undrawn against the invader.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 16 June, 2/1. The casting-line should be of the finest undrawn gut.
b. Of a lottery: cf. DRAW v. 34.
1730. Fielding, Author’s Farce, I. i. A Benefit-Ticket in an un-drawn Lottery.
5. Not delineated or depicted.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., II. 621. The Death-bed of the just! is yet undrawn By mortal hand.
