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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
druggist
noun
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▪ Also patrons of barbers, doctors, druggists, pharmacists, and surgeons.
▪ He left the grammar school in Narberth at fifteen to become apprenticed to a Narberth druggist.
▪ In 1844 his father left schoolmastering to become a druggist and Hargreaves was introduced to medicine and chemistry.
▪ Most insurers and health-maintenance organizations compile formularies with committees of doctors and druggists.
▪ Other entrants had been apprenticed to farriers, druggists, and so on, or were following their fathers in practice.
▪ She married a druggist and later they moved to Red Lodge, Montana..
The Collaborative International Dictionary
druggist

druggist \drug"gist\, n. [F. droguiste, fr. drogue. See 3d Drug.]

  1. One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; one who owns or operates a drugstore.

  2. one who compounds drugs or distributes drugs into containers for distribution to customers; a pharmacist or apothecary.

    Syn: dispensing chemist. [PJC]

    Note: The same person often serves as both pharmacist and retail seller of drugs. See the Note under Apothecary.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
druggist

1610s, from French droguiste, from droge (see drug (n.)). Earlier drugger (1590s).

Wiktionary
druggist

n. A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.

WordNet
druggist

n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs [syn: pharmacist, chemist, apothecary, pill pusher, pill roller]

Usage examples of "druggist".

Stone, call up the druggist, repeat the number to him, and ask if it calls for your aconitine prescription.

Druggists and Grocers, prosecuted and convicted from 1812 to 1819, for supplying illegal Ingredients to Brewers for adulterating Beer.

I likewise did much of his shopping, and gasped in bafflement at some of the chemicals he ordered from druggists and laboratory supply houses.

I entered a coffee-room, and I had scarcely taken a seat when a young doctor-at-law, with whom I had studied in Padua, came up to me, and introduced me to a druggist whose shop was near by, saying that his house was the rendezvous of all the literary men of the place.

These capsules are commonly known as Poppyheads, obtained from the druggist for use in domestic fomentations to allay pain.

A druggist, whom the doctor had recommended to me, set out the same day to get ready the baths which were to cure me of my imaginary complaint, and in two days I went myself, after having given Le Duc orders to bring my baggage on.

She had been the wife of a druggist of Montpellier, and had been so unfortunate as to let Castelbajac seduce her.

My merry laugh kept company with his astonishment, and calling one of the servants of the inn I sent him to the druggist to sell the mercury that was left.

Even those doctors and druggists, playing favorites, helped Peptide 7 become the golden success it is.

On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the druggist lived.

As a matter of fact, Bill Browder had brought me to the drugstore and had been so clever in a conversation that I unwittingly gave the druggist the impression it was all right with me to tap the wires.

This vast formation, so precise and rigid, yet so quick and fluid to change course or rearrange itself, a seagoing miracle surely beyond the dreams of Nelson himself, was maintained with careless ease by hundreds of officers of the deck, not one in ten of whom was a professional seaman: college boys, salesmen, schoolteachers, lawyers, clerks, writers, druggists, engineers, farmers, piano players-these were the young men who outperformed the veteran officers of the fleets of Nelson.

I have recommended it to others and the only complaint I hear now is that our druggist cannot keep a supply on hand.

I had actually made such a stop, on my way to get Stiffler, and the druggist would bear me out if he remembered.

Our druggists prepare a tincture from the strobiles with spirit of wine, and likewise a thickened extract.