al⋅che⋅my /ˈælkəmi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [al-kuh-mee]
–noun, plural -mies for 2.
1.
a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
2.
any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
"And the sun sank on the grand Australian bush -- the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands."
Henry Lawson ‘The Bush Undertaker’, in (ed. ) While the Billy Boils , p. 7
i think i am making some headway, i hope.
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