Dictionary: DROWSE – DRUG'GIST

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DROWSE, v.i. [drowz; Old Belgic, droosen.]

  1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness. – Milton.
  2. To look heavy; to be heavy or dull.

DROWSE, v.t.

To make heavy with sleep; to make dull or stupid. – Milton.

DROW'SI-HED, n.

Sleepiness. [Obs.] – Spenser.

DROW'SI-LY, adv.

  1. Sleepily; heavily; in a dull, sleepy manner. – Dryden.
  2. Sluggishly; idly; slothfully; lazily. – Ralegh.

DROW'SI-NESS, n.

  1. Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep. – Milton. Locke.
  2. Sluggishness; sloth; idleness; inactivity. – Bacon.

DROW'SY, a.

  1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; comatose. – Bacon. Dryden.
  2. Dull; sluggish; stupid. – Atterbury.
  3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; as, a drowsy couch.

DROW'SY-HEAD-ED, a.

Heavy; having a sluggish disposition. – Fotherby.

DRUB, n.

A blow with a stick or cudgel; a thump; a knock. – Addison. – DRUB'BING, ppr. Beating with a cudgel; beating soundly.

DRUB, v.t. [Sw. drabba, to touch, hit, beat; träffa, to hit, touch, reach, find; Dan. dræber, to kill; treffer, to hit; G. D. treffen; Gr. τριβω, to beat; Sax. tribulan, trifelan; It. trebbiare; L. tribula; allied probably to throb. These words seem to be from the same root as the French trouver, to find, that is, to hit, to strike on, and attraper and frapper, Eng. to rap. But perhaps there may be two different roots. See Class Rb, No. 4, 28, 29, 37, 39. Drubbing is a particular form of driving.]

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. The little thief had been soundly drubbed with a cudgel. – L'Estrange.

DRUB'BING, n.

A cudgeling; a sound beating.

DRUDGE, n.

One who works hard or labors with toil and fatigue; one who labors hard in servile employments; a slave. – Milton.

DRUDGE, v.i. [druj; Scot. drug, to drag, to tug, to pull with force; whence druggare, drudging; Ice. droogur, a drawer or carrier; Ir. drugaire, a drudge or slave. This seems to be a dialectical form of drag, draw.]

To work hard; to labor in mean offices; to labor with toil and fatigue. In merriment did drudge and labor. – Hudibras.

DRUDG'ER, n.

  1. A drudge.
  2. A drudging-box. [See Dredging-box.]

DRUDG'ER-Y, n.

Hard labor; toilsome work; ignoble toil; hard work in servile occupations. Paradise was a place of bliss … without drudgery or sorrow. – Locke.

DRUDG'ING, ppr.

Laboring hard; toiling.

DRUDG'ING-BOX, n. [See DREDGING-BOX.]

DRUDG'ING-LY, adv.

With labor and fatigue; laboriously.

DRUG, n. [Fr. drogue; Arm. droguerezou; Sp. Port. and It. droga. In Dutch, droogery is a drug and a drying place, so that drug is a dry substance, and from the root of dry. Junius supposes it to have signified, originally, spices or aromatic plants. See the verb, to dry.]

  1. The general name of substances used in medicine, sold by the druggist, and compounded by apothecaries and physicians; any substance, vegetable, animal or mineral, which is used in the composition or preparation medicines. It is also applied to dyeing materials.
  2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand in the market.
  3. A mortal drug, or a deadly drug, is poison.
  4. A drudge. [Scot. drug.] – Shak.

DRUG, v.i.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. – B. Jonson.

DRUG, v.t.

  1. To season with drugs or ingredients. – Shak.
  2. To tincture with something offensive.
  3. To dose to excess with drugs or medicines.

DRUG'GED, pp.

  1. Seasoned with drugs.
  2. Tinctured with something offensive.

DRUG'GER, n.

A druggist. [Not used.] – Burton.

DRUG'GET, n. [Fr. droguet; Sp. droguete; It. droghetto.]

A cloth or thin stuff of wool, or of wool and thread, corded or plain, usually plain. – Encyc.

DRUG'GING, ppr.

  1. Seasoning with ingredients.
  2. Tincturing with offensive matter.

DRUG'GIST, n. [Fr. droguiste; Sp. droguero; It. droghiere; from drug.]

One who deals in drugs; properly, one whose occupation is merely to buy and sell drugs, without compounding or preparation. In America, the same person often carries on the business of the druggist and the apothecary.