magician, magicien

[Fr. magicien.] One skilled in magic; one who practices magic or the black art; a sorcerer, an enchanter, a necro mancer. "He sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof."- Genesis xli. 8. ma-gilp, ma-gilph', s. (Etym. doubtful.] Art : A vehicle for colors, consisting of linseed which has been long exposed to the oxidizing influence of the air mixed with a certain proportion of mastic varnish. ( Weale .) măg-11-ŭs, s . [Latinized from native name.] Zool.: A genus of siphonostomatous gasteropods, family Buccinidae. It contains but one species, Magilus antiquus , parasitic in live corals in the IMG:content-0819.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A magisterial injunction; an order given with authority. 2. A medicine or remedy supposed to be of exceptional efficacy; a magistral. *II. Chem.: (See extract.) "Although magistery be a term variously enough employed by chymists, and particularly used by Para cels us to signify very different things; yet the best notion I know of it, and that which I find authorized even by Para cels us in some pa ages, where he expre es himself more distinctly is, that it is a preparation whereby there is not an analysis made, of the body a igned, nor an ex traction of this or that principle, but the whole, or very near the whole body, by the help of some additament, greater or le , is turned into a body of another kind."Boyle: Works, i. 637.