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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRUG, n. [See the verb, to dry.]
1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetable, animal or mineral, which is used in the composition or preparation of medicines. It is also applied to dyeing materials.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand in market.
3. A mortal drug, or a deadly drug, is poison.
4. A drudge.
DRUG, v.i. To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
DRUG, v.t.
1. To season with drugs or ingredients.
2. To tincture with something offensive.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic v
1: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose]
2: use recreational drugs [syn: drug, do drugs]

Merriam Webster's

geographical name — see Durg

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English drogge Date: 14th century 1. a. obsolete a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations b. a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication c. according to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1) a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (2) a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease (3) a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body (4) a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device 2. a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand — used in the phrase drug on the market 3. something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness • druggy also druggie adjective II. verb (drugged; drugging) Date: 1605 transitive verb 1. to affect with a drug; especially to stupefy by a narcotic drug 2. to administer a drug to 3. to lull or stupefy as if with a drug intransitive verb to take drugs for narcotic effect III. dialect past of drag

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a medicinal substance. 2 a narcotic, hallucinogen, or stimulant, esp. one causing addiction. --v. (drugged, drugging) 1 tr. add a drug to (food or drink). 2 tr. a administer a drug to. b stupefy with a drug. 3 intr. take drugs as an addict. Phrases and idioms: drug addict a person who is addicted to a narcotic drug. drug on the market a commodity that is plentiful but no longer in demand. drug peddler (colloq. pusher) a person who sells esp. addictive drugs illegally. drug squad a division of a police force investigating crimes involving illegal drugs. Etymology: ME drogges, drouges f. OF drogue, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drug Drug, v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] ``To drugge and draw.'' --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drug Drug, n. A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(drugs, drugging, drugged) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A drug is a chemical which is given to people in order to treat or prevent an illness or disease. The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people. ...the drug companies. N-COUNT 2. Drugs are substances that some people take because of their pleasant effects, but which are usually illegal. His mother was on drugs, on cocaine... She was sure Leo was taking drugs... ...the problem of drug abuse. N-COUNT 3. If you drug a person or animal, you give them a chemical substance in order to make them sleepy or unconscious. She was drugged and robbed. VERB: V n 4. If food or drink is drugged, a chemical substance is added to it in order to make someone sleepy or unconscious when they eat or drink it. I wonder now if that drink had been drugged... Anyone could have drugged that wine. VERB: be V-ed, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Medicine, physic, remedy. 2. Unsalable article. II. v. a. 1. Mix with drugs, put drugs into. 2. Deaden with narcotics or anaesthetics, deaden, dull. 3. Dose to excess, stuff with drugs. 4. Surfeit, disgust.

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