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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



... drug-vender, (inventive genius,) an utterly untrustworthy and incompetent observer, (profound searcher of Nature,) a shallow dabbler in erudition, (sagacious scholar,) started the monstrous fiction (founded the immortal system) of Homoeopathy. ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... consisted of M. and Mme. Cochin, Mme. Desroches, and a young Popinot, still in the drug business, who used to bring them news of the Rue des Lombards. (You know him, Finot.) Mme. Matifat loved the arts; she bought lithographs, chromo-lithographs, and colored prints,—all the cheapest things she could lay her hands on. The Sieur Matifat amused himself by looking into ...
— The Firm of Nucingen • Honore de Balzac
... have the veil that was in front of me. My eyes are attracted distinctly by everything which moves. A powerful aromatic odor assails me; I seek the source of it. Opposite me, in full daylight, a nurse is rubbing with a drug some gnarled and blackened hands, enormous paws which the earth of the battlefields, where they were too long implanted, has almost made moldy. The strong-smelling liquid is becoming a layer ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... glorying in his own cunning, was impatient to administer his drug, and proposed it should be sent up in my tea. The keeper assented, and the boy very soon afterward brought me some tea in a pot ready made, contrary to custom, I having been used to ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... supper Mr. No-Tail, and his two boys, Bully and Bawly, tacked the wire mosquito netting on the windows, and when they were all done Mr. No-Tail went down to the corner drug store and he bought a quart of ice cream, the kind all striped like a sofa cushion, and he and his wife and Bully and Bawly sat out on the porch eating it with spoons out of a dish, just ...
— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis


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