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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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