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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d {Dredge}.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Drag \Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. ? See {Draw}.] 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. [1913 Webster] Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. --Denham. [1913 Webster] The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. [1913 Webster] Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. [1913 Webster] Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden. [1913 Webster] {To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Syn: See {Draw}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Drag \Drag\, v. i. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. [1913 Webster] 2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. [1913 Webster] The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. --Byron. [1913 Webster] Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay. [1913 Webster] 3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. [1913 Webster] A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. --Russell. [1913 Webster] 4. To fish with a dragnet. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and 1st {Dredge}.] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. [1913 Webster] 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. [1913 Webster] 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. [1913 Webster] 6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag sail} (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. [1913 Webster] My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. --J. D. Forbes. [1913 Webster] 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. [1913 Webster] 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. [1913 Webster] 10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under {Drag}, v. i., 3. [1913 Webster] {Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor}, {sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc. {Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: drag n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn: {drag}, {retarding force}] 2: something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land" 3: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag" 4: clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag" 5: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" [syn: {puff}, {drag}, {pull}] 6: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him" v 1: pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him" 2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {haul}, {hale}, {cart}, {drag}] 3: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: {embroil}, {tangle}, {sweep}, {sweep up}, {drag}, {drag in}] 4: move slowly and as if with great effort 5: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: {drag}, {trail}, {get behind}, {hang back}, {drop behind}, {drop back}] 6: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: {puff}, {drag}, {draw}] 7: use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen" 8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: {scuff}, {drag}] 9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: {dredge}, {drag}] 10: persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set" 11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours" [syn: {drag}, {drag on}, {drag out}]