drawn

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

verb

  1. past participle of draw
    The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist

adj

  1. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
  2. Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

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