Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete aphetic form of apothecary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An apothecary.

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  • noun Obsolete form of apothecary.

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Examples

  • Her race is run, her thread is spun, her goose is cooked, and any other trope you please; for what signifies all the white lead at the 'pothecary's compared to the warm brown of Maria's complexion and her long eyelashes!

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

  • Miss Frothingham sent me a basket of black Hamburg grapes to-day, which were very grateful after the hotel tea and coffee and other 'pothecary's stuff.

    Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896

  • There was a girl with a long curl, and she said, 'Go to the' pothecary's; 'and what would Fly have known where she meant?

    Little Folks Astray Sophie May 1869

  • "He would turn all the contents of the 'pothecary's shop into my fallows, and call it' progress. '"

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "He would turn all the contents of the 'pothecary's shop into my fallows, and call it' progress. '"

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I must say, he, for the value of three guineas, set up my wife's constitution in such a manner, that I have saved within these two years, I believe, forty pounds in 'pothecary's bills.

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • 'em, -- 'pothecary's shop with _true_ pill-boxes, "she went on, examining one delightful thing after another;" and here's a farm out of a box, and all the same funny old things -- trees with green shavings on them and fences with feet so they'll stand up, and here's the dear fam'ly, same size as the trees and the houses, of course, and -- oh!

    The Admiral's Caravan Reginald Bathurst Birch 1880

  • "if you will buy neither time nor light -- physic for a proud stomach, sir; -- there is a 'pothecary's shop on the other side of the way."

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • Go in to the 'pothecary's, and get something under your nose to revive you: and let _us_ mind our _own_ business. "

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

  • "Got a new 'pothecary in our town," said Simes Badger.

    The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

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