"Alkahest" is a word in ENGLISH
The fabled \"universal solvent\" of the alchemists; a
menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.
I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter.
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Dick and Bob were on a hunting trip. At nightfall, Dick complained, 'We've been hunting all day. We've shot at five deer - and not hit one!''OK. Let's miss two more and then head back to camp,' said Bob.
A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood …
Read the complete definitionThe fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
Read the complete definitionA fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
Read the complete definitionA story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.
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Read the complete definitionThe Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
Read the complete definitionA bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Read the complete definitionThe official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be …
Read the complete definitionOne of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle …
Read the complete definitionA nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Read the complete definitionA serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Read the complete definitionThe plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
Read the complete definitionA Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or …
Read the complete definitionAny story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Read the complete definitionFiction; untruth; falsehood.
Read the complete definitionTo feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Read the complete definitionTo compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
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Read the complete definitionA writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
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