drug
drug is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.
- 4.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.
- 5.To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.
- 6.To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- admission
- and
- bargain
- bon
- buy
- catchpenny
- charge
- cheap
- cheapness
- come
- cost
- costless
- deadhead
- depreciation
- dirt
- dog
- down
- expense
- expenseless
- fall
- for
- free
- good
- gratis
- gratuitous
- gratuity
- have
- honorary
- inexpensive
- labor
- little
- love
- low
- market
- mere
- moderate
- money
- nasty
- nominal
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is drug.
- What is 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 called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson called?
- What is to tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton called?
- What is to dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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