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1. ascending ger.

13 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Act of moving or climbing upward; ascending up; (b) upward direction; (c) progress. …

2. calcīning ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. The process of calcination. …

3. cimenting ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Alch. Combining or cementation (of ingredients). …

4. conǧēling ger.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Coagulation; (b) alch. combining. …

5. encorporing ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. The process of forming an amalgam or compound. …

6. englūting ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Alch. The process of coating (a vessel) with a sticky substance; sealing (a vessel). …

7. enlūting ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Alch. The process of sealing or cementing (an alchemical vessel) with clay. …

8. fermenting ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. The act or process of making something ferment, i.e. effervesce, give off heat, and change its properties. …

9. fīring ger.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Maintaining a fire; (b) firewood; (c) firing barel = fir-barel [see fir 6]; (d) lighting (of a beacon); firing iren, an impliment for firing a gun; (e) alch. heating; (f) incitement. …

10. fixinge ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. The process of changing (a substance) to a permanent state. …

11. gī̆lding(e ger.

Additional spellings: gildinge
4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The process of overlaying with gold, gilding; (b) alch. the process of making gold. …

12. multiplīing(e ger.

Additional spellings: multipliinge
29 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An increase in amount, number, or size; growth, production, spreading, distribution; (b) ?multiplicity; (c) ?ascendancy; (d) multipliing of husbondri, a group of husbandmen. …

13. pū̆trefīing ger.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Med. The process of putrefaction in living tissue or body fluid; (b) alch. the action of breaking down a substance into its constituent elements. …

14. sublīming(e ger.

Additional spellings: subliminge
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. The refining of a substance through sublimation. …

15. turning(e ger.

Additional spellings: turninge
116 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) Movement about an axis or central point, rotation, revolution; also, a whirling about; also, the circular passage of time; an annular cycle; turning abouten; turning up and doun; (b) in cpds. and……

16. waxing(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: waxinge
42 quotations in 5 senses
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The process of increasing in size or dimension; enlargement. …

17. werking(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: werkinge
192 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The doing of an act or action; acting (in a certain way), (one’s) behavior; also, that which one does or has done, (one’s) acts or doings; an act, a deed; werking togeder; a merveillous werking……

18. whīting(e ger.

Additional spellings: whitinge
14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of whitewashing; the whitewashing (of sth.); also, the act or process of applying a white glaze or coating (to tile); whiting werk (b) ?a white coating material, whitewash; (c) the……

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