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5. aufin, -en n.
Additional spellings:
aufen, alfen, alphen
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Chess Elephant (the piece now called bishop); (b) used contemptuously of a person; (c) ?rubbish.
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7. aumbre, -er n.
Additional spellings:
aumber, aunber
26 quotations in 2 senses
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Ambergris, or a perfume made of it; grei aumbre, aumbre oriental.
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19. elixī̆r, ē̆lixer n.
Additional spellings:
elixer
17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The effective agent in the alchemical production of gold and silver, a substance of transmutative power, the philosopher's stone; also, fig.; (b) the product of transmutation; a metal, ?brass or……