Alch. Whitening. …

Alch. To whiten, as by the addition of arsenic or antimony. …

Alch. Having the power to whiten. …

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……

Phil., physiol., med., alch., astrol. (a) To change, modify, transform; alteren to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect……

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. 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. …

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. …

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

Alch. Elemental, i.e. having the nature of a pure 'element.' …

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). …

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……

(a) Something that is neither animal nor vegetable, a mineral; (b) the ore of a metal; (c) alch. one of the three varieties of philosophers' stone; (d) minerals, the De Mineralibus of Albertus Magnus……

(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) Given occasion; (b) incidental; (c) alch. fir occasionat, artificial heat as from ashes or heated water baths. …

(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. Broken down into constituent parts. …

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.)……

A receptacle, container; alch. a flask for receiving distillate from an alembic, a receiver. …

(a) A variety of peltry; ?red squirrel skins (contrasted with grei-werk); (b) alch. the operations producing the red stone [cp. red adj. 1g.]. …

Alch. A vessel used in distilling, an alembic. …

Alch. Vaporized, made volatile. …

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)]. …

Physiol. The combination of coldness and dryness characteristic of the element of earth and the corresponding humor of melancholy; also, alch. earthen substance [last quot.]. …

(a) Subject to change, unstable; given to changing, inconstant, fickle; (b) alch. capable of being transmuted into another substance. …

Alch. Consisting of three parts, tripartite. …

(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,……

(a) Effective with respect to inherent natural qualities; vertual hete, alch. the heat inherent in the physical composition of a substance (as opposed to heat from the outside) capable of transforming……

(a) A small, portable container, esp. one for storage or serving of food or drink; a flask, pitcher, jug, cup, dish, pot, etc.; a piece of household tableware, a kitchen utensil, etc.; also, an……