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1. (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.

2. (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

3. (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

4. (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

5. (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.

6. (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

7. (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

8. (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

9. (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

10. (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

11. (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

12. (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.

Thesaurus
acres alluvion arable land ash cataclysm cinder clay clinker clod crust debris deluge deposit deposition deposits detritus diluvium dirt draff dregs drift dross dry land dust earth ember engulfment feces flood freehold froth glebe grassland ground grounds inundation land landholdings lees lithosphere loess marginal land marl mold moraine offscum overflow overflowing overrunning precipitate precipitation real estate real property region regolith scoria scree scum sediment settlings silt sinter slag smut sod soil soot spill spillage subaerial deposit sublimate submersion subsoil terra terra firma terrain territory the Deluge the Flood the country topsoil washout whelming woodland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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