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Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.

Charcoal prepared for making powder.

Of or relating to alchemy.

In the manner of alchemy.

One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Alchemy. [Obs.]

To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace.

t 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.

See Alcoholometry.

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.