Drag (?), n. [See 3d Dredge.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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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.
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2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron.
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Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.
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3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. Russell.
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4. To fish with a dragnet.
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