Chemical Lexicon

so that it can seem like a lake-born halcyon, and because it hangs in this way on reeds, it was once called pericalamitum and calmochium: today, if I am not mistaken, they call it sea-ball.

Dioscorides and Pliny say that Adarces is born around thin reeds from the foam of fresh and salt water where they mix, and that it has caustic power.

Adarris, Is the flower of sea water.

Adec, Is acidic milk. It is also called Adhebe.

Ader, Is fresh milk without butter. It is also called Adho or Adoc.

Adehem is Alhohonec, Is a plate.

Adarige, Is Ammoniac.

Adabisi or Adebezi, Is a tortoise.

Adibat, Is Mercury.

Ados, Is water where iron is extinguished.

Adorat, Is the weight of four pounds.

Adram, Is rock salt.

Adraragi, Is garden saffron.

Adsamar, Is urine.

Aër, Is breeze, breath, spirit, wind.

Acetum amineum, Is white.

Vinegar distilled from vinegar dregs, is of a most sharp and fiery nature, so that it consumes all metals, stones, and similar things, as if it were aqua fortis. It is called rooted vinegar by some, which is that sharpest liquor of vinegar that remains at the bottom after the phlegm has been abstracted. Paracelsus, book 7 on the nature of things, page 456. It is made from the crystals of vinegar dregs by distilling through a retort with cohobations: or place good wine vinegar in a retort, distill the phlegm with a slow fire, and pour this back onto the caput mortuum dead head/residue frequently, and digest in manure, then finally distill: and take first what is separated, for what comes out later, elicited by a most strong fire, is rooted vinegar.

Acordina, Is Indian Tutty.