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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Drug \Drug\ (dr[u^]g), verb (used without an object) [See 1st {Drudge}.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Drug \Drug\, noun A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Drug \Drug\, noun [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.
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; -- used often in the phrase "a drug on the market". "But sermons are mere drugs." --Fielding.
And virtue shall a drug become. --Dryden.
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. [PJC]
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.
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. -- Christopher S. Wren (N Y. Times, June 10, 1998, p. A5) [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Drug \Drug\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Drugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drugging}.] [Cf. F. droguer.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. --B. Jonson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Drug \Drug\, verb (used with an object)
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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
verb
1: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: {drug}, {dose}]
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