"Alkahest" is a word in ENGLISH

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood …

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and …

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be …

One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle …

A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or …

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

of Fable

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.