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21. blā̆k n.

61 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The color black, a black or dark color; (b) her. sable; (c) (the) broun and (the) blak, persons of all kinds, everyone. …

22. blā̆knes(se n.

Additional spellings: blaknesse
22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Black or dark color, blackness; swarthiness; (b) fig. foulness, wickedness; (c) alch. the blackness characteristic of the putrefaction of metals; the initial putrefactive stage in transmutation. …

23. bleu n.

32 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Blue or blue-purple color; faded bleu, pale or dull blue; orient bleu, bright blue; sad bleu, deep blue; (b) as a symbol of stability and constancy. …

24. blọ̄d n.(1)

297 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound……

25. bō̆dī n.

337 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and……

26. bōras n.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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Name given to several minerals; prob. borax, malachite, sodium carbonate, verdigris, and possibly others: (a) an ingredient in preparations for soldering metals and for fastening gold leaf; also, a……

27. brēd n.(1)

141 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Bread as a staple food; any food baked from dough or paste, such as leavened or unleavened bread, rolls, biscuit, cake, and pastry; (b) bred and water (milk), the diet of fasting or penance; (c) c……

28. brid n.

164 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as……

29. brim-stōn n.

Additional spellings: brimston
34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The mineral sulphur; (b) quik brim-ston, native or virgin sulphur; ded brim-ston, sulphur which has been rendered inert; poudre of brim-ston, flowers of sulphur; brim-ston water, water containing……

30. brọ̄ther n.

207 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A brother or half-brother by blood relationship; (b) pl. brothers; (c) brotheres doughter (sone, wif), a brother's daughter (son, wife); brotheres love, love for (one's) brother; brotheres slaier……

31. calcināciǒun n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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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. …

32. cibāciōn n.

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

33. circūlāciǒun n.

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Alch. The operation or process of changing the 'body' (by heating or cooling) from one 'element' into another, or an instance of it; craft of circulacioun; vessel of circulacioun, stillatory, still. …

34. citrināciǒun n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. Of metal: the process of turning yellow (the final stage in transmutation). …

35. cocatrīce n.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(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. …

36. cōēquāciǒun n.

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Alch. Matching. …

37. conǧelāciǒun n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Freezing; chilling; (b) clotting or thickening (of blood, humors, etc.); (c) alch. combining (of different things). …

38. conservāciǒun n.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Maintenance in good condition, conservation; preservation from damage; (b) alch. fir of conservacioun. …

39. cō̆rs n.

86 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A dead body, corpse; ded cors; dedman cors; (b) cors present, a customary gift to the clergy from the estate of a deceased parishioner, a mortuary. …

40. crosselet n.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. A crucible. …

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