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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alkahest \Al"ka*hest\, n. [LL. alchahest F. alcahest, a word
that has an Arabic appearance, but was probably arbitrarily
formed by Paracelsus.]
The fabled ``universal solvent'' of the alchemists; a
menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. --
{Al`ka*hes"tic}, a.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
alkahest
n : hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists
[syn: {alcahest}, {universal solvent}]
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