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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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Etymology of 'Drug'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drug" Quotes from Famous Books

... minor producer of opium, heroin, and marijuana; major illicit transit point for heroin en route to the international drug market from Burma and Laos; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries; opium poppy cultivation has been reduced by eradication efforts; also a drug money-laundering center; minor role in amphetamine production ...

— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... chamber-maids—treated him with a bit of derision—careless, a trifle contemptuous, but without malice. At times he was even not without use: he could transmit notes from the girls to their lovers, and run over to the market or to the drug-store. Not infrequently, thanks to his loosely hung tongue and long extinguished self respect, he would worm himself into a gathering of strangers and increase their expenditures, nor did he carry elsewhere the money gotten as "loans" on such occasions, ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... rule applies to ayupee. Properly diluted and properly used, it is one of the most powerful agents for the relief, and, in some cases, the cure, of Bright's disease of the kidneys. But the Government guards this unholy drug most carefully. You can't get a drop of it in Java for love nor money, unless on the order of a recognized physician; and you can't bring it into the ports of England unless backed by that physician's sworn statement and the official stamp ...

— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew

... student of letters. He, too, was saturated in this atmosphere of style; he was shut out from the disturbing currents of the world, he might forget that there existed other and more pressing interests than that of art. But, in such a place, it was hardly possible to write; he could not drug his conscience, like the painter, by the production of listless studies; he saw himself idle among many who were apparently, and some who were really, employed; and what with the impulse of increasing health and the continual provocation of romantic scenes, he became ...

— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson

... weakened, almost stripped entirely of serious belief, nay, fighting for its own existence; while apprehensive princes try to raise it up by an artificial stimulant, as the doctor tries to revive a dying man by the aid of a drug. There is a passage from Condorcet's Des Progres de l'esprit humain, which seems to have been written as a warning to our epoch: Le zele religieux des philosophes et des grands n'etait qu'une devotion politique: et toute ...

— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

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