·noun One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
Rendered in the margin and the Revised Version "perfumer," in Ex. 30:25; 37:29; Eccl. 10:1. The holy...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
To talk like an apothecary; to use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose