chemic

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Chemical.
• adjective Archaic Alchemic.
• noun An alchemist.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Specifically A solution or liquor of chlorid of lime or bleaching-powder for bleaching vegetable matter, as cotton.
• In bleaching, to steep, as cotton goods, in a dilute solution of chlorid of lime in stone vats, the liquor being pumped up and strained through the goods until the action is complete.
• Pertaining to chemistry (or, formerly, to alchemy): same as chemical, but now used chiefly in poetry.
• Imitative; adulterated; not the genuine thing. See alchemy, 3.
• noun A chemist or an alchemist.
• noun In bleaching, a dilute solution of chlorid of lime.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Chemical.
• noun obsolete A chemist; an alchemist.
• noun (Bleaching) A solution of chloride of lime.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective archaic Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
• adjective obsolete Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
• adjective Chemical.
• noun A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.

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• adjective relating to or used in chemistry