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.