Drag ¹

Definition: A confection; a comfit; a drug.

Drag ²

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.

Drag ³

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.

Drag ⁴

Definition: To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

Drag ⁵

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.

Drag ⁶

Definition: To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

Drag ⁷

Definition: To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

Drag ⁸

Definition: To fish with a dragnet.

Drag ⁹

Definition: The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

Drag ¹⁰

Definition: A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

Drag ¹¹

Definition: A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

Drag ¹²

Definition: A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

Drag ¹³

Definition: A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

Drag ¹⁴

Definition: Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

Drag ¹⁵

Definition: Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

Drag ¹⁶

Definition: Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

Drag ¹⁷

Definition: The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

Drag ¹⁸

Definition: A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

Drag ¹⁹

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.,

drag ²⁰

Definition: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

drag ²¹

Definition: 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"

drag ²²

Definition: 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"

drag ²³

Definition: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

drag ²⁴

Definition: 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"

drag ²⁵

Definition: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

drag ²⁶

Definition: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"

drag ²⁷

Definition: persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"

drag ²⁸

Definition: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

drag ²⁹

Definition: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

drag ³⁰

Definition: pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"

drag ³¹

Definition: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

drag ³²

Definition: walk without lifting the feet

drag ³³

Definition: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

drag ³⁴

Definition: move slowly and as if with great effort

drag ³⁵

Definition: 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"

drag ³⁶

Definition: 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"