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To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.

A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.

A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

A druggist. [Obs.] Boule.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

a 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.

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

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

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

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

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

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

e blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. -- Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; --…