any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces

A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary, a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold, The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics

Plural form of pharmacy

A pharmaceutical product or preparation, medicine A pharmaceutical or pharmacological preparation or product; a drug, drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment, adjective_ of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists, of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment, A pharmaceutical product or preparation

Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious, A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether, Something round and clear, as a drop of water or dew; any small granule or globule resembling a pearl; specifically, in pharmacy, a small pill or pellet containing or consisting of some medicinal substance, intransitive verb_ To decorate or cover with pearls or beads resembling pearls, To dive or fish for pearls or pearl-bearing mollusks, To form beads resembling pearls, transitive verb_ To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively, To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains

A combination of ingredients used in cooking or baking, The material for the charge of an internal-combustion engine, That which results from mixing; a mixed mass, body, or assemblage; a compound or combination of different ingredients, parts, or principles; specifically, in pharmacy, a preparation in which insoluble substances are suspended in watery fluids by means of gum arabic, sugar, the yolk of eggs, or other viscid matter. When the suspended substance is of an oleaginous nature, the mixture is properly called an emulsion