Alchemy

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 22

al'ke-mi, n. Occult chemistry; an ancient science which aimed to transmute base metals into gold, find the universal medicine, etc. — Alchemic, a a. Relating to alchemy. — Alchem'ically, adv.— n. Al'chemist, n. One versed inv etc. — Alchemist'the ical, a.