Defn: Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DRUG
Drug, v. i. Etym: [See 1st Drudge.]
Defn: To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw."
Chaucer.
DRUG
Drug, n.
Defn: A drudge. Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
DRUG Drug, n. Etym: [F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.]
1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations. Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. Milton.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.
DRUG
Drug, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] Etym:
[Cf. F. droguer.]
Defn: To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.