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noun

Apothecary n. (pl. apothecaries)

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes; a druggist; a pharmacist. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners, licensed to prescribe medicine a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who sells drugs and makes up prescriptions is now commonly called in England a druggist or a pharmaceutical chemist.

A drugstore; a store where medicines are sold.

Apothecaries' weight, the system of weights by which medical prescriptions were formerly compounded. The pound and ounce are the same as in Troy weight; they differ only in the manner of subdivision. The ounce is divided into 8 drams, 24 scruples, 480 grains. See Troy weight.

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"Apothecary" Quotes from Famous Books

... archway is a dingy apothecary-shop. On one street is the bazaar of a modiste en robes et chapeaux and other humble shops; on the other, the immense batten doors with gratings over the lintels, barred and bolted with masses of cobwebbed iron, like the door of a donjon, are overhung by ...

— Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable

... him, the same reminiscence of unavoidable sufferings silently borne, was also an old infantry man, having served in both the British and American armies. Shubert was an American lad, who had got tired of clerking it in an apothecary's shop, and had enlisted from a desire for adventure, as you might guess from his larkish countenance. Sweeny was a diminutive Paddy, hardly regulation height for the army, as light and lively as a monkey, and with much the air ...

— Overland • John William De Forest

... five minutes' walk the two emerged upon a broad street crossing their path at right angles. All the shops were closed except Stubbs the provision dealer's and Dundon's drug-store. In the window of the apothecary a great purple jar, with a spray of gas jets behind it, was flaring on the darkness like a Bengal light. Richard stopped at the provision store and made some purchases; a little further on he halted at a fruit stand, kept by an old crone, who had supplemented the feeble flicker ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... even after the most unmistakable signs of fondness, in the betrayal of which the girls are anything but coy. All these symptoms the poets prescribe as regularly as a physician makes out a prescription for an apothecary. ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... is only in the 'Traveller's Joy' that all the bigwigs are out of sight, and the apothecary's boy saved the ...

— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

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