These are the meanings of the letters ALCUMY when you unscramble them.
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Alum (n.)
A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
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Alum (v. t.)
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
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Amyl (n.)
A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
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Calm (n.)
Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
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Calm (n.)
To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
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Calm (n.)
To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
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Calm (super.)
Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
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Calm (super.)
Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
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Caul (n.)
A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.
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Caul (n.)
The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
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Caul (n.)
A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.
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Clam (v. t.)
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
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Clam (v. t.)
Strong pinchers or forceps.
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Clam (v. t.)
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
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Clam (v. t.)
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
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Clam (v. i.)
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
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Clam (n.)
Claminess; moisture.
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Clam (n.)
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
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Clam (v. t. & i.)
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
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Clay (n.)
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
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Clay (n.)
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
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Clay (v. t.)
To cover or manure with clay.
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Clay (v. t.)
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
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Culm (n.)
The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
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Culm (n.)
Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
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Culm (n.)
The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
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Cyma (n.)
A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
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Cyma (n.)
A cyme. See Cyme.
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Maul (n.)
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
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Maul (v. t.)
To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
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Maul (v. t.)
To injure greatly; to do much harm to.