Alch. Whitening. …

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……

Alch. Vaporization, distillation. …

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

Alch. Mercury, quicksilver. …

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. 'Feeding' the 'matter' with fresh material [the seventh process]. …

Alch. Of metal: the process of turning yellow (the final stage in transmutation). …

(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. …

Alch. A retort for distillation by condensation (descent). …

(a) A prescribed course of diet; also, a treatise prescribing a course of diet; (b) alch. a prescribed method for regulating the growth of the dry matter. …

Alch. Obscuration, ?darkening attending the loss of identity of separate ingredients in the process of producing the Philosopher's Stone. …

(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). …

Alch. Reduction, by various processes, of a volatile substance to a state not affected by fire or other agents of change; also fig. …

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

(a) Med. & surg. The hardening of a bodily part, an inflammation, etc.; (b) alch. the hardening or congealing of soft materials. …

(a) A white, milk-like precipitate produced by mixing a salt solution with a solution of lead acetate; (b) alch. a name for sophic mercury. …

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……