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t; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

emistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

A composition of drugs. Shak.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. [Slang]

A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. Trench.

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

r other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.

The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like. The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the…

rious solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

A monastery; a convent of friars. Drugdale.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.