| Drag 1. (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug. 2. (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. 3. (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. 4. (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. 5. (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. 6. (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. 7. (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. 8. (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet. 9. (n.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 10. (n.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 11. (n.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 12. (n.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. 13. (n.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 14. (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). 15. (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. 16. (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. 17. (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. 18. (n.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 19. (n.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 20. (n.) 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. Thesaurus Entries adduct, adduction, affinity, aggravation, allurement, amble, annoyance, arrest, artery, attract, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, avenue, bad news, bag, bale, barge, be magnetic, be prolonged, bearing rein, bedevilment, bit, block, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, boulevard, bowl along, brake, bundle, burden, burdening, burthen, buttonholer, capillarity, capillary attraction, cargo, cascade, centripetal force, chain, chain-smoke, charge, charging, chaw, check, checkrein, chew, chewing, chock, claudicate, clog, clout, clump, coax, coefficient of friction, confine, countercheck, crashing bore, crawl, creep, cumber, cumbrance, curb, curb bit, dab, daggle, dally, damper, dangle, dawdle, deadweight, deceleration, delay, depend, detain, detention, devilment, difficulty, dillydally, distract, dogging, dogtrot, doorstop, downer, drabble, draft, drag along, drag on, drag out, drag sail, draggle, drain, drape, draw, draw towards, drench, dress, drift anchor, drift sail, drip, drogue, droop, dryasdust, dub, dusty, ease-off, ease-up, encumbrance, equalize, even, exasperation, fall, fall behind, falter, favor, fetter, flag, flagging, flap, flat tire, flatten, flop, flounce, flow, fluid friction, foot, footslog, force of friction, force of viscosity, freight, friction head, friction loss, frictional resistance, frightful bore, gait, gallop, get behind, go dead slow, go on, go slow, goof off, grade, gravitation, gravity, grease, habitual smoking, hale, halt, handicap, hang, hang back, hang down, harassment, harrow, harrying, haul, have an attraction, headache, heave, highway, hinder, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hold back, hold up, holdback, holdup, hop, hounding, humdrum, idle, impede, in, inch, inch along, incubus, incumbency, induce, influence, inhale, inhale snuff, inside track, interest, internal friction, jog, jog-trot, jolt, jump, keep back, lading, lag, lag behind, lallygag, lay, laze, letdown, letup, level, limp, linger, linger behind, linger on, load, loading, lock step, loiter, lollygag, lop, lubricate, lug, lumber, lunge, lurch, lure, magnet, magnetism, magnetize, make late, martingale, millstone, mince, mincing steps, minus acceleration, molestation, mosey, mow, mutual attraction, nicotine addiction, nicotinism, nod, nuisance, obstruct, obstruction, oil, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pace, paddle, path, peg, pelham, pend, persecution, persuade, pest, piaffe, piaffer, pill |