(a) A lamp of glass, metal, etc.; oil lamp; light; laump light, a lighted lamp; shinen as a laump, to shine like a lamp; (b) fig. a source of light or guidance; a star, the Virgin Mary; the fire of……
Alch. One of the two principal ingredients of the philosophers' stone constituting the female element in the alchemical marriage; another name for the mercury of the philosophers, and hence in some……
(a) A leopard; (b) a representation of a leopard; ?a pastry leopard [1st & last quots.]; (c) alch.spotted panter, the varicolored result of a certain series of alchemical procedures.
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