6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drug \Drug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drugged}; p. pr & vb n.
{Drugging}.] [Cf. F. droguer.]
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. --B. Jonson
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drug \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. --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drug \Drug\, v. i. [See 1st {Drudge}.]
To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] ``To drugge and
draw.'' --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drug \Drug\, n.
A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv 3, 253).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drug \Drug\, n. [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; any stuff used in dyeing or in
chemical operations.
Whence merchants bring
Their spicy drugs. --Milton.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an
article of slow sale, or in no demand. ``But sermons are
mere drugs.'' --Fielding.
And virtue shall a drug become --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
drug
n : something that is used as a medicine or narcotic
v 1: administer a drug to "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[syn: {dose}]
2: use recreational drugs [syn: {do drugs}]
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