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. --Denham.
The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. --Tennyson.
A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope.
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. --Tennyson.
3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
{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. --Byron.
Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.
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. --Russell.
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. --J. D. Forbes.
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.
As you listen to the self-righteous sermonising of the religious and the 'purity league' members, it serves as a forceful reminder of how many would still like to drag us back into that cesspit of ignorance today.
Hormel's per-share earnings have been about flat at around $1 a share for the past three years, with meat-processing losses imposing an annual drag of 25 cents to 50 cents a share.
They're afraid that the FDA's bureaucrats, many of whom are fighting the proposal, will drag their feet in giving formal approval for drugs being distributed to patients under the new rules.
If upward momentum fails, however, profit-taking could drag the dollar down toward 1.56 marks and 135 yen before buyers reappear, Mr. Standing said.
Meanwhile, new evidence of weakening economic activity raised speculation that a significant slowdown might be a serious drag on corporate profits.
A recession could trip up the Canadian dollar's recovery and a resumption of the dollar's decline against other major currencies would almost certainly drag the Canadian dollar down too.
A few drag wooden carts, piled with home-made furniture, by hand.
Just down Rustaveli Boulevard, the main drag in Tbilisi, a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin is still standing _ but just barely.
But he says that, while he worries about range fires and drunken crowds getting in the way of emergency vehicles, he is most leery of the drovers' plan to start the drive by running more than 100 longhorn cattle down Roundup's five-block main drag.
And the annual European star emigrates in despair event is Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, an Australian drag comedy with our own Terence Stamp drowning his sorrows in mascara. The good news at Cannes so far comes from neither Europe nor the US.
This smacks of 'yet another EC effort to drag its heels on an issue', one said. No negotiators are forecasting a procurement deal will be reached in Brussels next week.
"This is just good clean fun for us, a celebration of our lifestyle," said Joe Van Es-Ballesteros, organizer of the drag extravaganza.
In the absence of a second park, the surplus hotel capacity is certainly a heavy drag.
Several people had to drag him to safety.
"If Bush just lets this drag out, it will hurt him," says William Hamilton, a Democratic political pollster.
Some manufacturers, notably Rover with its highly successful 800-series 'facelift', have abandoned the ultimate saving of drag coefficient in favour of a more distinctive front-end appearance.
Jimmy Carter helped drag him down, first dumping hordes of Cuban refugees on Fort Chaffee, then precipitating the Republican landslide of 1980.
Racing enthusiasts and professionals say sponsorship mania and the resulting climb in prices stem directly from the growing interest in all types of auto racing, whether rural drag strips, the Indy races or stock-car racing.
Her parents and neighbors, helpless, watched the men drag her into the street and fire three bullets into her head and chest.
Lining up at the terminal counter could soon become a thing of the past and it will also negate the need to have to drag your luggage through the terminal.
So instead of trying to drag reluctant clients to the market, bankers are bringing the market to their clients, in the form of rate-protection products.
He has spent hours in mud up to his armpits trying to drag a bogged animal clear of a creek.
'The next two days are vital,' said Mr V. Raghuraman, secretary general of the Assoc-iation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Finance Ministry officials also acknowledged the crisis could affect sentiment if it were allowed to drag on.
In Vietnam, the lack of clear objectives ensured the war would drag on, and also made it impossible to tell, for all the "body counts" and other statistics, whether we were making any genuine progress toward achieving these objectives.
But her conservative, landowner-dominated party may drag its feet on this and other measures.
Western Mining picked up 10 cents to ADollars 7.65 and MIM was 6 cents ahead at ADollars 2.60 as they continued to rebound after the heavy selling last week. KUALA LUMPUR saw widespread profit-taking drag equity prices back after initial gains.
Mr. Moore, for example, says that should the war drag on for months or turn into a bloody ground war, much of the enthusiasm now so evident will evaporate.
Turkish opposition leaders have accused Mr. Ozal of willingness to let Washington open a second front against Iraq in the event of war, which they believe would invite an Iraqi response and drag Turkey into the conflict.
It wasn't the Indianapolis 500, but Gov. Roy Romer took to the track like a pro in a red Corvette convertible to win his drag race against a police officer.
He said Earth's rotation, and thus the length of a day, changes slightly over the decades because of wind drag on Earth's surface.