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. …