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English Dictionary: pharmacy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pharmacy
n
  1. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,
    Synonym(s): pharmacy, pharmaceutics
  2. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
    Synonym(s): drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pharmacy \Phar"ma*cy\, n. [OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie,
      pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to administer or
      use medicines, fr. [?] medicine.]
      1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and
            of compounding and dispensing medicines according to
            prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an
            apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
  
      2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an
            apothecary's shop.
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