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Old distiller's vessel
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alembic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alembic \A*lem"bic\ ([.a]*l[e^]m"b[i^]k), n. [F. alambic (cf. Sp. alambique), Ar. al-anb[=i]q, fr. Gr. 'a`mbix cup, cap of a still. The cap or head was the alembic proper. Cf. Limbec .] An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Alembic was a poetry magazine established by Peter Barry, Ken Edwards , and Robert Gavin Hampson , which appeared eight times during the 1970s. The first issue appeared in 1973: it was a collection of poems by Barry, Edwards, Hampson and Jim Stewart with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French alambic (13c.), via Old Spanish, from Arabic al-anbiq "distilling flask," from Greek ambix "cup," of unknown, possibly Semitic, origin. Often spelled limbeck 15c.-17c.
Usage examples of alembic.
Ialdabaeoth burst from the alembic in a shattering of glass and a sulfurous stench, already the size of a bear and still growing as it reared up, fanged jaws agape.
Spilled coals were scattered across the paving slabs and atop the rumpled velvet, burning holes in the rich pile, and the glass alembic was now a jagged splash of greenish shards.
It happened in the middle of an end-of -year bargain sale, when all of them had been trying to get the only bronze alembic left in a bin.
All the other customers had been thrown hundreds of yards away in every direction, and the merchandise had exploded into its component ions, except for the alembic, which sat in the center of the circle shining like an atomic pile.
We do not turn from it--no, we enter into it freely, as the alembic of our own Transformation, the power nexus of our change.
Glen, I think Change uses an alembic big enough for a man as part of their process of transformation.
She loathed the idea of doing nothing, but she knew without question that if she were to stay on with this investigation, she had to accept that Steven had the right, not to lock Jason into the alembic, but to ask Jason to submit to it.
His family went hungry, his clothes turned to rags, while he stared into the glass alembic and waited for the nigredo to give way to the peacock colors of transformation, through the white albedo to the glorious red of the final stage.
It would all be worth it if he could only reduce the universe, all the millennia of creation, into this alembic in front of him.
That this change had taken place despite the trauma of the alembic was eloquent testimony to his strength of spirit and the incomprehensible workings of the human mind.
Steven had used to refer to the alembic of transformation in which he had locked Jason, but that connection was too thin to build much on.
She knew Jonas had to have a human-sized alembic in the cellars, behind one of those three locked doors.
Something as explosive on the outside of the alembic as what was due to go on in the inside?
And think about it: Jonas wanted her voluntarily, which meant that he either had no wish to drag her into the alembic with him or, more likely, he could not envision the necessity.
She needed to see the basement, to examine the alembic itself and to see if there was any sign of a nitrate bomb.