drug1 (drug)

[Early mod. E. also drugg, drugge (ME. drugges, drogges, is doubtful in this sense, as in the only pa age cited (Chaucer) it alternates with dragges, stomachic comfits: see dredge2 ); = G. droge, drogue = Sp. Pg. It. droga, Full redy hadde he his a pote caries, To send him dragges [var. drogges, drugges] and his letuaries, For eche of hem made other for to winne. Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 426. 2. A thing which has lost its value, and is no longer wanted; specifically, a commodity that is not salable, especially from overproduction: as, a drug in the market (the phrase in which the word is generally used). drugging. [drug1, n.] I. trans. 1. To mix with drugs; narcotize or make poisonous, as a beverage, by mixture with a drug: as, to drug wine (in order to render the person who drinks it insensible). The surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their po ets. Shak., Macbeth, ii. 2. 2. To dose to exce with drugs or medicines.3. To administer narcotics or poisons to; render insensible with or as with a narcotic or anesthetic drug; deaden: as, he was drugged and then robbed. IMG:content-0029.png:[blocks in formation] drug2+ (drug), n. [See drudge1 .] A drudge. Hadst thou, like us, from our first swath proceeded The sweet degrees that this brief world affords To such as may the pa ive drugs of it Freely command, thou wouldst have plung'd thyself In general riot. Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. drug3 (drug), n. Same as drogue . druggelt, v. i. A Middle English form of drudge1 . drugge2t, n. An obsolete form of drug1 . drugger (drug'er), n. [ drug + -er1. Cf. F. drogueur , Sp. droguero .] 1. A druggist. Fraternities and companies I approve of - as merchants' burses, coll edges of druggers , physicians, musicians, . Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 63. 2. One who administers drugs; especially, a physician who doses to exce . Dunglison . drug germ ant (drug'er-man), n. form of dragoman. An obsolete You drug german of heaven, must I attend Your droning prayers? Dryden, Don Sebastian. Pity you was not drug german at Babel. Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 83. drum druidæ, also druis (fem. druias ), pl. druides (usually in pl.), = Gr. δρυΐδης, a druid; of Old Celtic origin: sprites. Thir Religion was governd by a sort of Priests or Magicians call'd Druides from the Greek name of an Oke, which Tree they had in greate reverence, and the Mi leto especially growing theron. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 2. [ cap.] A member of a society called the United Ancient Order of Druids, founded in London in 1781, for the mutual benefit of the members, and now counting numerous lodges, called groves, in America, Australia, Germany, etc.-3. In entom., a kind of saw-fly, a hymenopterous insect of the family Tenth red i nid a. Druid's foot, a five-pointed figure supposed to have had mystical meaning among the druids, and still in use in some parts of Europe as a charm.