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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A compound metal simulating silver. See alchemy, 3.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An alloy imitating gold or silver.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An alloy imitating gold or silver.

Etymologies

  1. A corruption of alchemy. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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.”

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