Drag /(?)/

1. A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Dragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging

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.

   Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.

   The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

   A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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.

   Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.

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

   Have dragged a lingering life.

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

   The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.

   Long, open panegyric drags at best.

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

   A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.

4. To fish with a dragnet.

1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.]
5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
6. 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).

   My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
8. The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. (Founding)
9. A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. (Masonry)
10. 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. (Marine Engin.)