adrop

noun

plural -s

1

obsolete : a substance (as lead) believed essential to evolving the philosophers' stone

2

obsolete : philosophers' stone sense 1

Word History

Etymology

Middle English

First Known Use

circa 1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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