A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

RABEBOIA

Rulandus: The Roots of the larger Ranunculus.

RABIRA

or

RADIRA

Rulandus: Tin.

RABIEL

or

ROLIEL

Rulandus: i.e., Dragon's Blood.

RACHI

or

RACHO

Rulandus: i.e., Mercury.

RADIX

Rulandus: Radish.

RARI, RAAN

or

RANAC

Rulandus: Sal Ammoniac.

RADIUS

Rulandus: A Right Line.

RADIUS ROTE

Rulandus: Spoke of a Wheel.

RADIUS, RUTRUM LIGNEUM

Rulandus: Strickle.

RAGADAE NOTAE

Rulandus: Ulcers in the Hinder Parts, the Womb, Penis, etc.

RAINALE

Rulandus: A Stone from which Uzifer is made.

RAIBX RUS

or

RAEB

Rulandus: Stone.

RAMIGIRI

or

RAMIGI

Rulandus: i.e., Bolofonia, rel Rotigenig, Unknown.

RAMAG

Rulandus: i.e., Ash.

RAMENTA

Rulandus: Metal Waste.

RHAPONTICUM

Rulandus: The Body changed into Water and Blackness [sigil Mercury].

RAMA

Rulandus: An Abscess under the Tongue.

RANAC

Rulandus: Ten.

RASAR

or

RASTIS

Rulandus: Tin.

RASTOL

or

RASOES

Rulandus: Copper.

RASTUL

Rulandus: i.e., Salt.

RASAHETI, RATAGI, RUSANG, KOSANGE

Rulandus: Names of Copper.

RASTRUM

Rulandus: Kiln Rake.

RASTELLUM BIDEN

Rulandus: Shears.

REALGAR

Rulandus: Red Orpiment.

REALGAR

Rulandus: is properly a Mineral Smoke, which has something of the nature of Orpiment, or Arsenic. Metaphorically, it is that poison of the body which generally is the cause of Ulcers. It is of four kinds, corresponding to the four elements, so is there the Realgar on the Surface of Water, the Arsenical Realgar of the Earth, the Terebinthine Realgar of Air, and that Saturnine Conjunction which is the Realgar of Fire.

REBIS

Rulandus: Excrement of the Belly.

REBIS

Rulandus: The Stone Rebis, i.e., Hair.

REBISOLA

Rulandus: is the Arcanum of Urine, when Urine is cooked and skimmed. Allow it to stand three days. Then the Arcanum will be found in the form of pebbles.

REBUS

Rulandus: The Ultimate Substance of Things.

REBOLEA

Rulandus: Mummy, Burnt Menstruum or Ordure.

RECHA

Rulandus: i.e., Marble.

REBIS

Rulandus: Man and Wife, body and soul, the first stage of the operation; clean subtle Sand which adheres to Mercury; doubly-mingled Seed is called Rebis; it is also Ferment and Elixir, Medicine, Tincture; a twice-composed substance, says Senior.

RECEPTACLUM

Rulandus: is an ample globular Vessel for receiving distilling Humours, commonly called a Receiver. But this Receiver differs with the substance that is distilling. If things Vaporous, Spiritual, etc., are undergoing the operation, it should be very broad, as it is liable to be shattered by the distending force of a Vapour or Spirit. If, on the other hand, the matter be hot, the Receiver should have a long neck. If it be a substance of a middle nature, then the Receiver should be of medium capacity and length.

RECREMENTA

Rulandus: Slag, Cooked Slag.

RECREMENTA FERRI

Rulandus: Cinders.

RECTOR MACHINE

Rulandus: A Governor.

REDUX

Rulandus:is Dust, by which Calcined Metals and Minerals are Liquefied, returning again into a Metallic Regulus.

REDUCIREN

Rulandus: A Drying Process. It restores Fatness like Butter, and flows like Wax. Pouring water on dry earth, they call giving to Eat and to Drink.

REL, REBUS

Rulandus: Sour Milk.

RELOLLIUM

Rulandus: A Secret Virtue, such as Common Wormwood. It is its first virtue that it drives away worms. The second virtue is that it is of a warm and healthy nature.

REMANERE

Rulandus: To remain as Block Sheaves.

REPERCUSSIVA

Rulandus: Medicaments which cause Purging by Stool.

RES EFFOSSAS ALVEIS SUBTRAHERE ET RETROFUNDERE

Rulandus: To take the Metal from the Ore, and throw back the refuse.

RES FOSSILIS

Rulandus: Like Spume of Silver in the second grade.

RESOLUTIO

Rulandus: Resolution by Medicine is when things that are mixed together are violently separated, a dissolving matter being applied, and segregation thus effected. We term it Medicine, from Gebir, but if the dissolving matter be a liquid it is also termed Solving Water. In milky substances, it is performed with vinegar or like acids. The operation may also be called Empyriasis. In some cases it is akin to coagulation.

RESTIS

Rulandus: A Rope or Cord.

RESTINCTIO

Rulandus: is Gradation, by which a substance at white heat is quenched in an exalting liquid, and is thus brought into the highest degree of perfection which is possible to it in its own species. This is the first and sole end of the process.

RESINA

Rulandus: Yellow and Beautiful Pitch, Serapine Opopanax, Ammoniac, etc.

RESINA AURI

Rulandus: is the Saffron extracted from Gold.

RESINA PINI

Rulandus: i.e., Resin of the Pine or Fir.

RESINA TERRAE

Rulandus: Sulphur.

RESINA TERRE POTABILIS

Rulandus: Sulphur Sublimed and Reduced to a Liquid, Balsam, or Oil.

RETORTA

Rulandus: is a Globular Vessel, with a Small Neck issuing from the Body, and gradually bent round into an Oblong Pipe.

REVERBERATIO

Rulandus: is Ignition, reducing substances under the influence of a Potent Fire, and by means of reverberation and repercussion, into a fine Calx. It is either close or open.

REVERBERATIO CLAUSA

Rulandus: Close Reverberation takes place when Bodies are Calcined by Reverberation in a Sealed Reverberating Furnace. By this process, the fire can be graduated to a nicety, which is not possible in the vulgar way.

REVERBERATIO APERTA

Rulandus: Open Reverberation is when the Matter is Calcined in a Reverberating Furnace with all the Shafts and Doors open. This species of Reverberation is very powerful, and is used for hard bodies which are not easily dissolved.

REX

Rulandus: King, Soul, Spiritual Water which gives Moisture to the Female, and is restored to the Fountain whence it was derived. The Spirit in Water.

REVERBERATORUM FURNUS

Rulandus: The Reverberatory Furnace in which Matters are Calcined by Flame.

RINAR

or

RION

Rulandus:i.e., Filings; Superfluities.

RILLUS

Rulandus: A Chemical Instrument, of Oblong Shape, through which Molten Metal is poured.

ROBES

or

ROSCON

Rulandus: Vinegar; some say, Saturn.

RON

or

ROTULA

Rulandus: A Pound Weight.

ROSA

Rulandus: i.e., Tartar.

ROSEA

Rulandus: i.e., Erysipelas.

ROTA

or

ROTINGENIUS

Rulandus: i.e., Colofonia.

RORER THECA

Rulandus: Round Case of a Wheel.

RORER

Rulandus: Wheels.

ROTUMHA

Rulandus: A Vessel resembling a Cucurbit.

RUS

Rulandus: Thick Sap, any juice Cooked till it is Thick.

RUBEDO DE NIGRO

Rulandus: The Red that is Extracted artificially from Black Lime.

RUBEUM AURUM FALSUM

Rulandus: Tinged Copper, Sophisticated Alchemical Gold.

RUBIGO

Rulandus: is called in another work Hirudo, a Sweet Gall, and is made from Gold.

RUBRICA SINOPICA

Rulandus: Sinopian Earth, or Rubrica, so called because it first came from Sinope, a town of Paphlagonia, on the Black Sea, as we learn on the authority of Dioscorides (1. 5, c. 51), and also of Pliny and Vitruvius. It is also called Lepnia, and by the Greeks, Magra, or Mogan. It is close-grained, ponderous, homogeneous, free from grit and stones. It was an important product of Sinope, where it was made and sold. There is also a Rubrica which is brought in small quantities from Byzantium to Venice. There is also a Byzantine liver-coloured Pastille, on which Turkish letters are inscribed, and it is called Sigillated Earth. There was also that Lemnian Earth, which Pliny tells us was sold under a seal, and was called Rubrica and Sphragida. It was mined annually in Lemnos, and used both in medicine and dyeing. The seal upon it represented a goat. The island of Lemnos is not far from Thrace, and is now under the rule of Turkey, so it is easily imported to Byzantium. If its colour scarcely corresponds to true Rubrica, it is because the Earth with which it is blended for manufacture into Pastilles causes some change in its substance. The Turks hold it in high estimation as a cure for the plague, and so also they regard Armenian Earth, as we may learn from Galen. This Armenian Earth is not unlike Sigillated Earth, only it is not sealed. Whether the Earth which is made into Pastilles, and is signed with Turkish characters, be Sinopian Rubrica, or Lemnian Earth, or Armenian Earth, is not of much importance, as all have the same virtues. Formerly, one Earth alone was sealed, but Turkish intolerance checks its exportation. For the rest, consult Pliny (1. 35, c. 6) concerning Sinopian Earth, of which he makes three species

Rulandus: that which is red, that which is very pale red, and a middle quality.

RUBRICA FABRILIS

Rulandus: Artificer's Rubrics is twofold, and is called Red Chalk and Ruddle by the Germans. It is either native or manufactured. Ruddle is the native kind. It is mined in the vicinity of the Elbe. Dioscorides (1. 5, c. 62) says that there is a Burnt Ochre, or Degenerate Rubrica, which is native in Western Iberia. Pliny also writes of it, and says that it is obtained from Metallic mines. There is also a variety which has affinity with Marble. Manufactured Rubrica is called Brown Ruddle by the Germans, and it is made of Burnt Ochre, as Theophrastus and Dioscorides testify. But Pliny (l. 35, c. 6) negligently reverses this order, and says that Burnt Ochre is made of Rubrica, against which Nature herself protests. For the rest, as to what manufactured Rubica is best, I refer to the Artificers therein. Dioscorides commends the crumbling quality, not the marmorous, or that which has affinity with Marble, nor yet the Egyptian or Carthaginian.
Rubrica:
(1) Native mined
Sinopian and Lemnian Earth. German Rubrica. Native in Mines, produced by the heat of the Sun, or of the Earth. Native in Rivers, produced by the heat of the Sun, or of the Earth. When burnt, Indurated Pnigitis is made from it. Ochre is not manufactured from Rubrica, as Pliny says, but Rubrica is obtained from Ochre;
(2) Manufactured Rubrica, made from Burnt Ochre, by Art, in new clay Vessels.

RUTABULUM

or

MUCUS

Rulandus: Rake Iron, a long Iron Rod, having a Spoon at one end and a Scraper at the other; it is useful for docimastic (?) operations.

RUTABULUM

Rulandus: A Spade for Digging.

RUTUM

Rulandus: A Paddle.

RUTRUM

Rulandus: Rake, Rabble, Stirring Rabble.

RUTRUM

Rulandus: A Mattock.

RUTRUM

or

RUTELLUM

Rulandus: Chest.