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Webster 1913 Edition
Drug
Drug
(drŭg)
, Verb.
I.
[See 1st
Drudge
.] To drudge; to toil laboriously.
[Obs.]
“To drugge and draw.” Chaucer.
Drug
,Noun.
A drudge (?).
Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Drug
,Noun.
[F.
drogue
, prob. fr. D. droog
; akin to E. dry
; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry
.] 1.
Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.
Whence merchants bring
Their spicy
Their spicy
drugs
. Milton.
2.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; – used often in the phrase “a
“But sermons are mere drugs.” drug
on the market”. Fielding.
And virtue shall a
drug
become. Dryden.
3.
any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Drug
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Drugged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drugging
.] [Cf. F.
droguer
.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
B. Jonson.
Drug
,Verb.
T.
1.
To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses . . . [were]
drugged
into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley.
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.
Tennyson.
2.
To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged
as oft,With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.
Milton.
3.
To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure
drugged
, he almost longed for woe. Byron.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drug
DRUG
,Noun.
1.
The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetable, animal or mineral, which is used in the composition or preparation of medicines. It is also applied to dyeing materials.2.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand in market.3.
A mortal drug, or a deadly drug, is poison.4.
A drudge.DRUG
,Verb.
I.
DRUG
,Verb.
T.
1.
To season with drugs or ingredients.2.
To tincture with something offensive.