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Drug   /drəg/   Listen
noun
Drug  n.  A drudge (?).


Drug  n.  
1.
Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines. "Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs."
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 drug on the market". "But sermons are mere drugs." "And virtue shall a drug become."
3.
Any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
4.
Any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority.
5.
Any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs.
Synonyms: illegal drug. "They (smaller and poorer nations) have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it."


verb
Drug  v. 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." "Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it."
2.
To tincture with something offensive or injurious. "Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws."
3.
To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. "With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe."


Drug  v. i.  To drudge; to toil laboriously. (Obs.) "To drugge and draw."


Drug  v. i.  (past & past part. drugged; pres. part. drugging)  To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.





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"Drug" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the Counter-Reformation. The indissoluble connection between Rome, Spain, and the Jesuits, was apparent to all unprejudiced observers. For this triad of reactionary and belligerent forces Sarpi invented the name of the Diacatholicon, alluding, under the metaphor of a drug, to the virus which was being instilled in his days into all the States ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... began to talk about how desperately some types of drug and some varieties of diagnostic equipment were needed. Conn had it on the tip of his tongue to ask Lucas whether he thought that was a racket, too. Lucas ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper
... them who had been in France, and at Geneva, brought back the rigid opinions and imperious discipline of Calvin, to graft upon our Reformation: which, though they cunningly concealed at first, as well knowing how nauseously that drug would go down in a lawful monarchy, which was prescribed for a rebellious commonwealth, yet they always kept it in reserve; and were never wanting to themselves either in court or parliament, when either they had any ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... the middle of the night saw his wife get up very quietly and leave the house. He followed her; as the woman passed down the village street, some Mahommedans, who had been sitting up smoking ganja, saw her and emboldened by the drug set out to see who it was, who was wandering about so late at night. The woman took refuge in a clump of bamboos and pulled down one of the bamboos to conceal herself. The Mahommedans surrounded the clump but when they saw the one ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... on her knees packing a trunk, and her husband was telephoning to the drug-store for a sponge-bag and a ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis


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