The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
A definite period (of work or other activity).
A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
A period of rest; time off.
A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
To work in place of (someone).
To constitute; to measure.
To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
To clarify; to explain in detail.
Of letters: to compose (a word).
To indicate that (some event) will occur.
To rest from work for a time.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.