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Druggist   /drˈəgɪst/   Listen
noun
druggist  n.  
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.
Synonyms: dispensing chemist. Note: The same person often serves as both pharmacist and retail seller of drugs. See the Note under Apothecary.






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"Druggist" Quotes from Famous Books



... go and get a druggist to give you a canful of it at the soda counter, and let you sip it with a straw. Only don't think that you can mix all these things up with your food. There isn't any nitrogen or phosphorus or albumen ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock

... as not get the premium on it before it went down the way folks said it was goin' to: so, after dinner, I harnessed up, and drove down to the post-office,—it was kep' in the drug-store then, the same as it is now,—and when I handed my gold piece to the postmaster, which was also the druggist, and said I'd take a quarter's worth of stamps, and I believed gold was worth a dollar fifteen just now, he first smelt of it, and then bit it, and then poured some stuff out'n a bottle onto it, and then handed it back to ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various

... that no satisfaction was to be found here, and Herbert looked further. Finally, at a druggist's he found a directory, and hopefully looked for the name. But another disappointment awaited him. There were several Dixons, but ...
— Herbert Carter's Legacy • Horatio Alger

... no drug-store ever had so many inquiries for articles that it didn't carry, but might possibly, or ought to, in the estimation of the prospective purchasers, as well as that at no time had Radvillians happened to think of so many things that they could get at a druggist's. People drove in from as far as twenty miles away, as soon as the news reached them, to buy notepaper and stamps—people who didn't write or receive a letter a month. Will Bigelow, even, dropped round and bought samples ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance

... that the 'contrat' would be signed in the palace of a queen, who does not live far from the Arc de Triomphe. Besides, one can find her address in the 'Almanach Bottin', for at the present day, there are queens who have their address in Bottin between an attorney and a druggist; it is only the kings of France who no ...
— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy


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