\Draw"ing\, n.
1. The act of pulling, or attracting.
2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of
   lines and shades; especially, such a representation when
   in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors
   of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with
   hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation;
   also, the figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by
   hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and
   cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating
   the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers,
   to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of
      compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for
      drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial
      representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master,
      drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine,
      drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing
      pencil, etc.
{A drawing of tea}, a small portion of tea for steeping.
{Drawing knife}. See in the {Vocabulary}.
{Drawing paper} (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for
   draughtsman and for water-color painting.
{Drawing slate}, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon
   drawing; -- called also {black chalk}, or {drawing chalk}.
{Free-hand drawing}, a style of drawing made without the use
   of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from
   mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus
   executed.