druggist (drugist)

[= MD. droog hist = F. droguiste (appar. later than the E.); as drug1 + -ist.] 1. One who deals in drugs; one whose occupation is the buying and selling of drugs. 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. Tatler , No. 131. Specifically-2. One who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; an apothecary or pharmacist; a dispensing chemist. [U. S.] - Chemist and druggist. See drugstert (drug's ter), n. [ chemist. Dead they lie, As these were times when loyalty's a drug , And zeal in a subordinate too cheap And common to be saved when we spend life! +-ic, -ic-al.] Of or pertaining to the druids: as, druidical remains. The Druid followed him, and suddenly, we are told, struck him with a druidic wand, or, according to one version, flung at him a tuft of gra over which he had pronounced a druidical incantation. O'Curry , Anc. Irish, I. x. Druidical bead. Same as adder - stone . - Druidical circles, the name popularly given to circles formed of large upright stones, consisting in some cases of a single round, in others of several rounds, and concentric, from the a umption that they were druidical places of worship, though there is no sufficient proof that this was their destination. The most celebrated druidical circle in England is that at Stone henge in Wilts hire. - Druidical patera, a name given to bowls, commonly of stone, and usually with one handle, found in the Isle of Man and elsewhere, and now thought to have been used as lamps. Similar bowls are still in use for this purpose in the Faroe islands. druidish (drö'id-ish), a. [ druid + -ish1.] Pertaining to or like the druids.