n.
- a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion.
[A Reader on Reading, “The Blind Bookkeeper” — Alberto Manguel]
Lexicon
n.
- either of two small square leather boxes containing slips inscribed with scriptural passages and traditionally worn on the left arm and on the head by observant Jewish men and especially adherents of Orthodox Judaism during morning weekday prayers
- an amulet
- in fantasy: the receptacle a lich keeps their soul in
[Adlai Arnold, in conversation]
