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dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

nomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.

he article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of death; in the dying struggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-n…

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.

tageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

pon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [R.]

A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day. H. Morley.

A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." G. Eliot.