alces alces
- n large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
alchemist
- n one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
alchemy
- n the way two individuals relate to each other
a mysterious alchemy brought them together - n a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times