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
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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!
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
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'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
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"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
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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
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"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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