The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispensary \Dis*pen"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F. dispensaire.]
A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
A dispensatory.
--Pope.
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n. (plural of dispensary English)
Usage examples of "dispensaries".
Some impression was of course made by the agents of various charities, the guilds and settlements bravely strove at their posts, some of the churches kept their flags flying on the borders of the industrial districts, the Good Samaritans of the Fresh-air Fund were active, the public dispensaries did a thriving business, and the little band of self-sacrificing doctors, most of them women, went their rounds among the poor, the sick, and the friendless.
And it must be confessed that the great hospitals, infirmaries, and dispensaries of large cities, where men of wellsifted reputations are in constant attendance, are the true centres of medical education.
Pierre told how he crossed the river Ruvuma by dugout into Cabo Delgado province on what was by now a guerrilla milkrun, so far from Portuguese control was this free zone of villages and dispensaries and schools.
The main danger came from high-level bombing raidsspasmodic, meaningless raids that blasted holes in the wild bush and occasionally filled the dispensaries up with broken bodies and the bomas with gutted bellowing cattle.
The company physicians did not examine the sick but had them line up behind one another in the dispensaries and a nurse would put a pill the color of copper sulfate on their tongues, whether they had malaria, gonorrhea, or constipation.
But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining.
For this each was given a space in The Line and a few crumbs at one of a hundred food dispensaries that Flattery operated in the area.
Even private markets were offshoots of the dispensaries -- true black market vendors disappeared with chilling regularity.
But the merchant fleet will know where all the dispensaries are, and be ready to supply each one instantly.
In factory towns, where the mechanics have dispensaries and employ doctors, something of the same sort of story has got about at the present day.
Well, at least some of them were kicking in the doors of California medical marijuana dispensaries for AIDS and cancer patients.