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Occamy

Occamy \Oc"ca*my\, n. [A corruption of alchemy.] An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]

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occamy

n. An alloy imitating gold or silver.

Usage examples of "occamy".

At night they would digest it, roaring the while, and on the morn the dung gatherers would wash the night’s gravel for powder of iron and nuggets of occamy and silver, less only the light metals which the groles had nourished themselves upon.