The Alchemist vocab

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Across
  1. 1. "a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks” pg 116
  2. 3. “water pipe” pg. 59
  3. 4. “ornamented with or having the form of a raised pattern, design, image, etc.” pg. 40
  4. 7. “to rub or wear away especially by friction” pg 166
  5. 8. “a strong easterly Mediterranean wind” pg. 30
  6. 10. “a hot dust-laden wind from the Libyan deserts that blows on the northern Mediterranean coast chiefly in Italy, Malta, and Sicily” pg 151
  7. 11. “not holding the faith of a given religion” pg. 36
  8. 13. “a set of materials or equipment designed for a particular use” pg. 117
  9. 14. “a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept and where the clergy prepares for services, rites, etc.” pg. 1
Down
  1. 1. “a fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and the Middle East that is the sycamore of Scripture and has edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig” pg. 1
  2. 2. “an indication in advance” pg 115
  3. 5. “region of southern Spain including the Sierra Nevada and the valley of the Guadalquivir River” pg. #9
  4. 6. “a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life” pg. 68
  5. 9. “a person who studies or practices alchemy” pg. 1
  6. 12. “to cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crust” pg. 40