/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Indian Drug (The)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Tobacco.
“His breath compounded of strong English beere,
And thʹ Indian drug, would suffer none come neere.”
Taylor, the Water Poet (1630).
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.