transitive. To close with slime or glue; to seal up (a vessel), make air-tight; implied in enˈgluting n. (See enlute, v.)

A process of the nature of that resulting from the operation of leaven on dough or on saccharine liquids. in Alchemy. Obsolete.

spec. Mixture or union of ‘elements’ or substances; one of the processes in alchemy. Obsolete.

Alchemy. Name of the seventh process, ‘feeding the matter’.

Alchemy and Old Chemistry. A process of analysis, extraction, or the like. water of separation (see quot. 1728). Obsolete.

Alchemy. A series of operations by which one element was supposed to be converted into another.

Chiefly Alchemy. The disintegration or decomposition of an inorganic substance by chemical or other action; the oxidation or corrosion of metals…

Alchemy. Perhaps: an act of enclosing one substance within another. Cf. termine, v. 4b. Obsolete. rare.

A process of testing or refinement by physical force or by fire. Obsolete. rare.

The action of quenching a heated object, esp. a metal, in cold water, oil, etc. Cf. restinguish, v. Obsolete.

transferred. A calcining process, in which metals were ‘anointed’ with certain solutions (see quot. 1678). Obsolete.

Alchemy. Reduction of a metal in some solvent.

In Alchemy (see quot. 1727).