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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Drug" Quotes from Famous Books



... her of civilized peoples, their laws, customs and religions, and instructing her how to write and read. She listened and learned submissively enough, but all the while Alan felt as one might who is called upon to teach tricks to a drugged panther. The drug in this case was her passion for him, which appeared to be very genuine. But when it passed off, or when he was obliged to refuse her, what, he wondered, would ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... a blizzard raging and the thermometer at 5 degrees below zero women stood in drug stores and groceries, and visited office buildings, factories and shops, wherever permission could be obtained, soliciting signatures for six consecutive days. Mrs. C. S. Stebbins, nearly seventy ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... of an easy victory, took the nearest tumbler and tossed off the contents in imitation of Jeremy's free and easy air; and the drug acted as swiftly as the famous "knock- out-drops" they used to administer ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... noise of guns on every hill spoke of other interests for the party at Etterick. Lewis had forgotten his misfortunes, she told herself, and in the easy way of the half-hearted found in bodily fatigue a drug for a mind but little in need ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... many years preserved eggs in water glass, or soluble glass, also known as "Sodium Silicate," a thick liquid about the consistency of molasses. It is not expensive and may easily be procured at any drug store. She used the water glass in the proportion of 10 quarts of water to one pint of the water glass. The water glass, although in liquid form, is usually sold by the pound, and 1-1/2 pounds equals one pint. The water should always he boiled ...
— Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit - among the "Pennsylvania Germans" • Edith M. Thomas


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