indraw

Noun

indraw (plural indraws)

1. The act or process of drawing inward.
   • Yet never, in my gayest hour of Being, Was I so sanguine as to deem my fate Would with each longing of impatient Hope Each gasp and indraw of the hasty breath Sparkle like Oroonoko* in a tube,1842, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Devil and the Lady
   • The centre line of this area is the limit of the ordinary influence of the equatorial indraw, but when great disturbances take place, the indraw extends further south, and the upper current becomes intensified, bringing violent south-easters over;...1893, Royal Society of South Africa, Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, page 238

Verb

IPA/ɪnˈdɹɔː/

indraw (third-person singular simple present indraws, present participle indrawing, simple past indrew, past participle indrawn)

1. (transitive) To draw in; draw inward
   • Out of Love and Wisdom did it come forth, and back into Love and Wisdom must it indraw all things.1935, Harriette Augusta Curtiss, Frank Homer Curtiss, The Inner Radiance, Order of Christian Mystics, page 121