Part 3500

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dredging box.</def>

<h1>Drudgery</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drudg"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>drudgery</b> of penning definitions. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without <b>drudgery</b> and with out sorrow. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Toll</er>.</syn>

<h1>Drudging box</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drudg"ing box`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See <er>Dredging box</er>.</def>

<h1>Drudgingly</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drudg"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a drudging manner; laboriously.</def>

<h1>Druery</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Dru"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>druerie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Drug</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Drudge</er>.]</ety> <def>To drudge; to toil laboriously.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "To <i>drugge</i> and draw."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Drug</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A drudge (?).</def>

<i>Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).</i>

<h1>Drug</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>drogue</ets>, prob. fr. D. <ets>droog</ets>; akin to E. <ets>dry</ets>; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See <er>Dry</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.</def>

<blockquote>Whence merchants bring

<blockquote>Their spicy <b>drugs</b>.

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.</def> "But sermons are mere <i>drugs</i>."

<i>Fielding.</i>

<blockquote>And virtue shall a <b>drug</b> become. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>