Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AR'OPH, n. [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 lithontryptic, a solvent for the stone. – Encyc. Coxe.