(archaic, _, in, _, US, dated, _, in, _, UK) : a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the '''apothecary's''' shop across the street.
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(archaic, _, or, _, historical) : an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
[K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alch…
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(uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
1919, S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia, volume 1, number 27, [http://books.google.com/books?id=ElVGAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA12-PA6&dq=apothecary page 6]:
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