Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

The act, ceremony, or sacrament of baptism; the fact of being baptized; also fig.; bapteme water, water of bapteme, water used in baptism; ben hight in bapteme, be given a Christian name; name of……

Alch. The process of reducing a substance to powder, or the like, by heating it; naturel calcinacioun, treu calcinacioun, changing the nature of a substance by heating. …

Alch. Reduced by calcination, calcined. …

Alch. & med. (a) To reduce (sth.) to powder by heating; (b) to change the nature of (sth.) by heating in a certain way. …

(a) The basilisk [see the *Trev.Barth. quots. for the folklore of this 'serpent']; -- also in fig. context; (b) confused with the crocodile; (c) alch. see quot. …

(a) To regulate the diet of (oneself, another) for purposes of health; dieten with, feed (sb.) with (a certain food); (b) alch. to regulate the growth of (the 'body' of dry matter) by adding or……

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

(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente……

(a) The face of man in its general physical aspects; (b) the face of an animal; (c) the face (of Fortune); the (double) face (of Janus, Law). …

(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness. …

(a) Having to do with a material substance that is neither animal nor vegetable; inorganic; mineral water, water impregnated with some mineral substance; (b) alch. ston mineral, one of the three……

(a) The act or process of providing nourishment; also, nutriment, nourishment; (b) alch. that which feeds the philosophers' stone. …

(a) A pearl; (b) margerie perl, a pearl; perl of oriente, orient perl, perl orient, perl orientale, a pearl from the Orient; also, a pearl of exceptional brilliance; perl ston, perl of pris; (c) coll.……

(a) Theol. A place or condition of temporal punishment for the spiritual cleansing after death of souls destined for heaven, purgatory; (b) chirche sleping in purgatori, soules in purgatori, the……

Alch. Quintessence, the fifth essence or element (the material of the heavenly bodies, distinct from the four elements, supposed to be latent in all things and to be extractable by sublimation, etc.)……

Alch. A vessel used in sublimation. …

(a) Native or natural sulfur, used as a component of medicines and incendiary mixtures; (b) alch. ?sophic sulfur [cp. sulphur n. (c)]. …

(a) Producing or promoting growth, vegetation, or vigor; animating, vivifying; vegetatif vertu, vertu vegetatif (b) phil. pertaining to the lowest species of soul, which gives bodily life, growth,……