Definition of "apothecaries" []

• Plural form of apothecary. (noun)

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• "Accordingly when the doctor, as they call apothecaries, was to have given a name, "I gives a sentiment, gemmen! may all republicans be" gull "oteened!""
• "But the apothecaries were the most usual salesmen, and their shops and the ordinaries were the customary day meeting-places for the more fashionable smokers."
• "With a willowy woman adorning its golden package, Pai You Guo, made in China, is marketed as a natural way to lose weight and is sold in Chinese apothecaries alongside bins of ginseng, slabs of shark's fin, and other traditional Chinese herbs and spices."