WordNet
n. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's, pharmacy]
Usage examples of "chemist's shop".
Smiley reached the place by way of a winding wooden staircase, passing on his ponderous climb several aged hand-drawn signs pulling at their drawing-pins and a stack of brown toiletry boxes belonging to a chemist's shop next door.
From now on the painter will go to the chemist's shop and simply pry the lids off his little pots of colour.
There was a chemist's shop just up the village that they had visited the afternoon before.
Cupples, and had there made certain purchases at a chemist's shop, conferred privately for some time with a photographer, sent off a reply-paid telegram, and made an enquiry at the telephone exchange.
Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.
I'll admit that it wasn't he who bought strychnine at the chemist's shop.