Definition: A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Definition: 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.
Definition: 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.
Definition: To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
Definition: 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.
Definition: To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
Definition: To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
Definition: To fish with a dragnet.
Definition: The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Definition: A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
Definition: A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
Definition: A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
Definition: A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
Definition: 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).
Definition: Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
Definition: Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.
Definition: Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged.
Definition: The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being
the cope.
Definition: A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft
stone.
Definition: 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.
