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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drug" Quotes from Famous Books

... account for the state of stupor in which the patient continues. I must, therefore, take it that either he has been drugged or is under some hypnotic influence. So far as I can judge, he has not been drugged—at least by means of any drug of whose qualities I am aware. Of course, there is ordinarily in this room so much of a mummy smell that it is difficult to be certain about anything having a delicate aroma. I dare say that you have noticed the peculiar Egyptians scents, bitumen, nard, aromatic ...

— The Jewel of Seven Stars • Bram Stoker

... her own apartment. Once the seat of joy and pleasure, the rooms now wore a desolate and melancholy look. The windows were darkened, the attendants moved noiselessly over the carpets, as if their footsteps would cause headache, and there was a faint scent of some drug much used in cases of deliquium. The apartments were handsome, but the only ornament in the room where they sat was a large bunch of withered flowers in an arched recess, and these, though possibly interesting to some one, were not ...

— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... to be debutantes that season, the "crowd" or (more accurately to quote Madeleine Hollister's racy characterization) "the gang," stood before Hallam's drug store, chattering like a group of bright-colored paroquets. They had finished three or four ice-cream sodas apiece, and now, inimitably unconscious that they were on the street corner, they were "getting up" a matinee party for the performance ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... pigment, which has been prepared for the purpose, they are taken out properly coloured. The singular thing is, that though the bath contains only one colour, several hues are imparted to the piece, these changes depending on the natures of the drug employed; nor can the colour be afterward washed off; and surely if the bath had many colours in it, they must have presented a confused appearance on ...

— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster

... being put to bed in a tent, and carefully attended to, Michael tried to discover if the saint was really ill, if he was suffering from some specific malady, or if he was merely worn out with fatigue. He administered a drug to him which he hoped would soothe his nerves and allow him ...

— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

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