druggist
(ˈdrʌgɪst)
Also 7 drouguist.
[a. F. droguiste (1549 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. drogue drug: see -ist.]
One who sells or deals in drugs.
In Scotland and United States the usual name for a pharmaceutical chemist. chemist and druggist: see chemist 4.
| 1611 Cotgr., Drogueur, a druggist, or drug-seller. 1639 J. W. tr. Guibert's Physic. i. 10 Two pennyworth of Sene..which they may have at the Apothecaries or drouguists. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 360 Two chymists had agreed upon a cheat, that one of them should turn druggist, and sell strange roots and powders. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 131 ¶3 That this new Corporation of Druggists had inflamed the Bills of Mortality and puzzled the College of Physicians with Diseases, for which they neither knew a Name or Cure. 1799 Med. Jrnl. II. 123 Mr. Brown, Wholesale Chemist and Druggist. 1802 Ibid. VIII. 247 Compounding and vending medicines in the shop of a druggist or an apothecary. |