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.

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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.

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Drug \Drug\, v. i. [See 1st Drudge.]

To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.]

``To drugge and draw.'' --Chaucer.

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

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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)