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Drew

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Drew  (dr)
Family of American actors, including John (1827-1862), his wife, Louisa (1820-1897), and their son John (1853-1927).
Drew, Daniel 1797-1879.
American financier who as a director of the Erie Railroad manipulated stock prices to his own advantage and with James Fisk and Jay Gould engaged Cornelius Vanderbilt in a bitter stock-market struggle (1866-1868) for control of the railroad.
drew  (dr)
v.
Past tense of draw.
drew [druː]
vb
the past tense of draw
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Noun1.DrewDrew - United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
John Drew
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He drew it out, laid it on the table before him, and regarded it with moody, fascinated eyes.
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Some persons endeavour to prove that Onomacritus, the Locrian, was the first person of note who drew up laws; and that he employed himself in that business while he was at Crete, where he continued some time to learn the prophetic art: and they say, that Thales was his companion; and that Lycurgus and Zaleucus were the scholars of Thales, and Charondas of Zaleucus; but those who advance this, advance what is repugnant to chronology.
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