undrawn

undrawn

1. past participle of undraw

From un- + drawn.

undrawn (comparative more undrawn, superlative most undrawn)

1. Not drawn (in various senses).
   • 1808, Charles Lucas, The Abissinian Reformer; Or, The Bible and Sabre: A Novel:

     With my back to the main-mast, I parried the first blow with my undrawn weapon. The blade of the second was lifted to strike me, when his comrade perceived my defensive state, and struck it aside.

   • 1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75:

     This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.

   • 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Shadowy Third”, in Encounters, page 153:

     Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.

   • 2003, G. Rousseau, M. Gill, D. Haycock, Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History, page 6:

     The point of these distinctions is that the imagining of disease has much in common with imagining pictures, especially undrawn pictures in the mind.