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

Noun
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"

Noun
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"

Noun
something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

Noun
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"

Noun
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

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

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

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

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

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

Verb
draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

Verb
walk without lifting the feet

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

Verb
move slowly and as if with great effort

Verb
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"

Verb
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"

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n.
A confection; a comfit; a drug.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
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.

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

v. i.
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.

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

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

v. i.
To fish with a dragnet.

v. t.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

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

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

v. t.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

v. t.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

v. t.
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).

v. t.
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

v. t.
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

v. t.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

v. t.
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

v. t.
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

v. t.
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.

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Drag

Drag , n. [See 3d Dredge.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

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.

To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Syn. -- See Draw.

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. 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.

Drag

Drag, n. [See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge.] 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.] Thackeray. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 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.

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

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt. 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 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. 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.

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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.

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.

The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.