Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound metal simulating silver. See
alchemy , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An alloy imitating gold or silver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
alloy imitatinggold orsilver .
Etymologies
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A corruption of alchemy.
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A still more universal spoon material was alchymy, also called occamy, alcamy, arkamy, etc., a metal never used now, which was made of a mixture of pan-brass and arsenicum.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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