talk like an apothecary
To prattle.
As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpo
apothecary
UK /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/ US /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/
noun 3
Definitions
noun
1
Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.
2
Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
3
A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
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