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Webster 1913 Edition
Aroph
Ar′oph
,Noun.
[A contraction of
aro
ma ph
ilosophorum.] A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Aroph
AR'OPH
, [A contraction of aroma philosophorum.]1.
A name by which saffron is sometimes called.2.
A chimical preparation of Paracelsus, formed by sublimation from equal quantities of hematite and sal ammoniac. The word is also used by the same writer as synonymous with lithontriptic, a solvent for the stone.