(now dialect, rare) Synonym of fuller's earth.

(historical) A Greek-Macedonian empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great and ruled by the Seleucid dynasty (312–63 BCE).

(historical) An ancient empire of Western Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.

(cooking) Applied to various Chinese dishes with a number of luxurious ingredients.

(cooking) Synonym of eight-treasure

(cooking) Synonym of eight-treasure

(space travel) A manoeuvre in which a spacecraft leaves the orbit of a moon or other planet and travels to orbit around the Earth.

An edge of a board, plank, etc. that has been made very thin.

(transitive) To give a very thin edge to.

(mathematics) An ordered list of the edges of a graph (set of connected vertices)