Definition of "chemic"

chemic

/ˈkɛmɪk/

adjective
not comparable
1. (archaic) Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
2. (obsolete) Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
  Quotations
  a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
  1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.217
3. (now rare) Chemical.
noun
plural chemics
1. (now rare) A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
  Quotations
  like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]
  1633, John Donne, The Comparison
2. (obsolete) A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.
verb
third-person singular simple present chemics, present participle chemicking, simple past and past participle chemicked
1. (obsolete, transitive) To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.