i Register
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adj
Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
Chemical.
noun
A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]
A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.
verb
To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.