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Drug \Drug\ (dr[u^]g), 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.
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Whence merchants bring
Their spicy drugs. --Milton.
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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.
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And virtue shall a drug become. --Dryden.
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3. any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
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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.
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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.

Syn: illegal drug. [PJC]

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)
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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.
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The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into
brutish good humor by a vast system of public
spectacles. --C. Kingsley.
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Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. --Tennyson.
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2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
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Drugged as oft,
With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.
--Milton.
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3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
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With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.
--Byron.
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