Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..

Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

Archenemy :: Archenemy (n.) A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind..

Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity..

Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification..

Demy :: Demy (n.) A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.

Demy :: Demy (n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford..

Demy :: Demy (a.) Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book..

Emyd :: Emyd (n.) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.

Emyd// :: Emyd// (pl. ) of Emy.

Emydea :: Emydea (n. pl.) A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.

Emyds :: Emyds (pl. ) of Emy.

Enemy :: Enemy (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood..

Enemy :: Enemy (a.) Hostile; inimical.

Epidemy :: Epidemy (n.) An epidemic disease.

Heterophemy :: Heterophemy (n.) The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness..

Polemy :: Polemy (n.) Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition..

Zoochemy :: Zoochemy (n.) Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.

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