Drudg"er*y (?), n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
The drudgery of penning definitions.
Macaulay.
Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow.
Locke.
Syn. -- See Toll.
Drudg"ing box` (?). See Dredging box.
Drudg"ing*ly, adv. In a drudging manner; laboriously.
Dru"er*y (?), n. [OF. druerie.] Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Drug (?), v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.
Drug, n. A drudge (?). Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Drug, n. [F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.] 1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.