The Collaborative International Dictionary
chemist's
chemist's \chemist's\ n. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold; a drugstore. [British]
Syn: drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's shop, dispensary, pharmacy.
Wiktionary
chemist's
n. (context British NZ English) A pharmacy.
WordNet
chemist's
n. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's shop, pharmacy]
Usage examples of "chemist's".
Figure to yourself, my friend, I held in my hand a little phial with an English chemist's label.
In fact, you've probably gone swimming in it-this is just a chemist's way of describing salt water.
I prepared the draft that contamed the poison-a chemist's glass of water colored with a little grenadine-and set it aside in readiness among my tubes and bottles.