Definition of drug

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Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations..

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Drug :: Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels..
Muller :: Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material..
Drug :: Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugging :: Drugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dru.
Tonometer :: Tonometer (n.) An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.
Purity :: Purity (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals..
Bedrug :: Bedrug (v. t.) To drug abundantly or excessively.
Intoxicate :: Intoxicate (v. t.) To poison; to drug.
Pharmacon :: Pharmacon (n.) A medicine or drug; also, a poison..
Podophyllum :: Podophyllum (n.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug..
Verdigris :: Verdigris (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates..
Drug :: Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations..
Exhaust :: Exhaust (v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether..
Debilitant :: Debilitant (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug..
Nepenthe :: Nepenthe (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting..
Drugger :: Drugger (n.) A druggist.
Pharmacist :: Pharmacist (n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.
Bhang :: Bhang (n.) 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..
Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (n.) A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop/ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government..
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