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Licensed as a physician. [Obs.] "A physicianed apothecary." Walpole.

Pinacotheca.

A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

An apothecary. [Obs.]

The theca of mosses.

y bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

æ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca. Ruffle of a boot, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. Halliwell.

nal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle. (Zoöl.) Same as Spermatheca.

ooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.

That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.

the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. Dunglison. -- Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist. -- Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above. -- Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the…

Same as Gonotheca.

the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

nds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 1apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the

An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.

low body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

ndard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.