[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alchemy \al"chemy\, n. of. alkemie, arquemie, f. alchimie, ar.
   al-kimacmimaca, fr. late gr. ?, for ?, a mingling,
   infusion, ? juice, liquid, especially as extracted from
   plants, fr. ? to pour; for chemistry was originally the art
   of extracting the juices from plants for medicinal purposes.
   cf. sp. alquimia, it. alchimia. gr. ? is prob. akin to l.
   fundere to pour, goth. guitan, as. ge'otan, to pour, and so
   to e. fuse. see fuse, and cf. chemistry.
   1. an imaginary art 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.
      1913 webster

   2. a mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for
      various utensils; hence, a trumpet. obs.
      1913 webster

            put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. miraculous power of transmuting something common into
      something precious.
      1913 webster

            kissing with golden face the meadows green,
            gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. --shak.
      1913 webster alchymistic
      alchymist
      alchymic
see also:
fuse chemistry 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

alchemy
     n 1: a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
     2: the way two individuals relate to each other; "their
        chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each
        other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together" syn:
         chemistry, interpersonal chemistry
see also:
chemistry interpersonal chemistry 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "alchemy":
   about-face, assimilation, assumption, becoming, bewitchery, change,
   change-over, charm, conversion, divination, enchantment, fetishism,
   flip-flop, glamour, gramarye, growth, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, lapse,
   magic, natural magic, naturalization, necromancy, obeah, passage,
   progress, re-formation, reconversion, reduction, resolution,
   reversal, rune, shamanism, shift, sorcery, sortilege, spell,
   spellbinding, spellcasting, switch, switch-over, sympathetic magic,
   thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy,
   transformation, transit, transition, turning into, vampirism,
   volte-face, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft,
   witchery, witchwork, wizardry

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