drug : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drug	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for drug
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drug n a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic v administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" Synonym(s): drug, dose use recreational drugs Synonym(s): drug, do drugs
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.] [bd]To drugge and draw.[b8] --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. [bd]But sermons are mere drugs.[b8] --Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. --Dryden.
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.