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- English Word Alcanna Definition An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.
- English Word Alcarraza Definition A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.
- English Word Alcarrazas Definition of Alcarraza
- English Word Alcayde Definition A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.
- English Word Alcayde Definition The warden, or keeper of a jail.
- English Word Alcayde Definition Same as Alcaid.
- English Word Alcazar Definition A fortress; also, a royal palace.
- English Word Alcedo Definition A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.
- English Word Alchemic Definition Alt. of Alchemical
- English Word Alchemical Definition Of or relating to alchemy.
- English Word Alchemically Definition In the manner of alchemy.
- English Word Alchemist Definition One who practices alchemy.
- English Word Alchemistic Definition Alt. of Alchemistical
- English Word Alchemistical Definition Relating to or practicing alchemy.
- English Word Alchemistry Definition Alchemy.
- English Word Alchemize Definition To change by alchemy; to transmute.
- English Word Alchemy Definition An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.
- English Word Alchemy Definition A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.
- English Word Alchemy Definition Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.
- English Word Alchymic Definition Alt. of Alchymy
- English Word Alchymist Definition Alt. of Alchymy
- English Word Alchymistic Definition Alt. of Alchymy
- English Word Alchymy Definition See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.
- English Word Alco Definition A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.
- English Word Alcoate Definition Alt. of Alcohate
- English Word Alcohate Definition Shortened forms of Alcoholate.
- English Word Alcohol Definition An impalpable powder.
- English Word Alcohol Definition The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
- English Word Alcohol Definition Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
- English Word Alcohol Definition A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.