Part 3501

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

<hw>Drug</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drugged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drugging</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>droguer</ets>.]</ety> <def>To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

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

<hw>Drug</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.</def>

<blockquote>The laboring masses . . . <b>drugged</b> into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To tincture with something offensive or injurious.</def>

<blockquote><b>Drugged</b> as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.</def>

<blockquote>With pleasure <b>drugged</b>, he almost longed for woe. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drugger</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A druggist.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Burton.</i>

<h1>Drugget</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug"get</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>droguet</ets>, prop. dim. of <ets>drogue</ets> trash, stuff, perh, the same word as <ets>drogue</ets> drug, but cf. also W. <ets>drwg</ets> evil, bad, Ir. & Gael. <ets>droch</ets>, Arm. <ets>droug</ets>, <ets>drouk</ets>. See 3d <er>Drug</er>.]</ety> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>By extension, any material used for the same purpose.</def>

<h1>Druggist</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug"gist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>droguiste</ets>, fr. <ets>drogue</ets>. See 3d <er>Drug</er>.]</ety> <def>One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.</def>

<note>&hand; The same person often carries on the business of the druggist and the apothecary. See the Note under <er>Apothecary</er>.</note>

<h1>Drugster</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Drug"ster</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A druggist.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Boule.</i>

<h1>Druid</h1> <Xpage=457>

<hw>Dru"id</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Druides</ets>; of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. <ets>draoi</ets>, <ets>druidh</ets>, magician, Druid, W. <ets>derwydd</ets> Druid.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.</def>

<note>&hand; The Druids superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and exercised judicial functions. They practiced divination and magic, and sacrificed human victims as a part of their worship. They consisted of three classes; the bards, the vates or prophets, and the Druids proper, or priests. Their most sacred rites were performed in the depths of oak forests or of caves.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or <i>groves</i> of the society are established in other countries.</def>