chemist
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chemist/ˈkemɪst/
▶noun
- 1 Brit. a shop where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold, and in which toiletries and other medical goods can be purchased.
■ a person who is authorized to dispense medicinal drugs.
- 2 a person engaged in chemical research or experiments.
– origin ME: from Fr. chimiste, from mod. L. chimista, from alchimista ‘alchemist’, from alchimia (see alchemy).
'chemist' also found in these Oxford entries:
aldrin
- Bakelite
- Bunsen burner
- chaptalization
- dalton
- Davy lamp
- dieldrin
- dispense
- dispensing chemist
- gallium
- gas
- Gibbs free energy
- Glauber's salt
- Graham's law
- Henry's law
- Le Chatelier's principle
- Lewis acid
- lewisite
- lindane
- macadamia
- mendelevium
- Nobel Prize
- pasteurellosis
- scheelite
- seaborgium
- sillimanite
- stishovite
- wollastonite
