in medicine. See PORTION.

in trade, called also cluff or clouch, is a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, that the weight may hold out when the goods are weighed again.

The king allows 1 lb draught for goods weighing no less than 1 Cwt. 2 lb for goods weighing between 1 and 2 Cwt. 3 lb for goods weighing between 2 and 3 Cwt. 4 lb from 3 to 10 Cwt. 7 lb from 10 to 18 Cwt. 9 lb from 18 to 30 or upwards.

DRAUGHT is also used sometimes for a bill of exchange, and commonly for an order for the payment of any sum of money due, &c. Then the person who gives the order is said to draw upon the other.

or, as it is pronounced, DRAFT, in architecture, the figure of an intended building described on paper; wherein are laid down, by scale and compass, the several divisions and partitions of the apartments, rooms, doors, passageways, conveniences, &c., in their due proportion.

It is usual, and exceedingly convenient, before a building is begun to be raised, to have draughts of the ichnography, or ground-plot of each floor or story; as also of the form and fashion of each front, with the windows, doors, ornaments, &c., in an orthography, or upright. Sometimes the several fronts, &c., are taken, and represented in the same draught, to show the effect of the whole building; this is called a scenography, or perspective.

the depth of a body of water necessary to float a ship: hence a ship is said to draw so many feet of water, when she is borne up by a column of water of that particular depth. Thus, if it requires a body of water whose depth is equal to 12 feet, to float or buoy up a ship on its surface, she is said to draw 12 feet water; and that this draught may be more readily known, the feet are marked on the stem and stern post, regularly from the keel downwards.

DRAUGHT-Hooks, are large hooks of iron, fixed on the cheeks of a cannon-carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train, distinguished by the name of fore and hind draught-hooks. Large guns have draught-hooks near the middle transom, to which are fixed the chains that serve to keep the shafts of the limbers on a march. The fore and hind hooks are used for drawing a gun backwards or forwards, by men with strong ropes, called draught-ropes, fixed to these hooks.

DRAUGHT-Horse, in farming, a sort of coarse-made horse, destined for the service of a cart or plough.