Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.
Shak.
Al*chym"ic (&?;), a., Al"chy*mist (&?;), n., Al`chy*mis"tic (&?;), a., Al"chy*my (&?;), n. See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.
||Al"co (&?;), n. A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.
{ Al"co*ate (&?;), Al"co*hate (&?;), } n. Shortened forms of Alcoholate.
Al"co*hol (l"k*hl), n. [Cf. F. alcool, formerly written alcohol, Sp. alcohol alcohol, antimony, galena, OSp. alcofol; all fr. Ar. al-kohl a powder of antimony or galena, to paint the eyebrows with. The name was afterwards applied, on account of the fineness of this powder, to highly rectified spirits, a signification unknown in Arabia. The Sp. word has both meanings. Cf. Alquifou.] 1. An impalpable powder. [Obs.]