overdraught

/ ˈəʊvəˌdrɑːft /

noun

a current of air passed above a fire, as in a furnace

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Mistakes, most serious and fatal, have come from lack of conscience as well as of faith in such exigencies—drawing on one fund to meet the overdraught upon another, hoping afterward to replace what is thus withdrawn.