What is "balneum"

Usage examples of "balneum".

Prior to entering the balneum, you inquired about weapons, sir, and places of concealment.

To speak frankly, I'd back a shorter, less attractive woman against you, assuming that she was less attracted to admiration and those bottles in your balneum, too.

He produced shiny scissors exactly like those Silk had found in Hyacinth's balneum.

Or perhaps it is simply that I have aged decades overnight, or that the fear that They will find me makes me speak as if I were now chronicling a collapsing empire as I lie in the balneum with my veins severed, waiting to drown in my own blood.

This done, put it inside a glass alembic and distill it in a Balneum Mariae over a cauldron of water set in such a way that it does not touch the water below by the space of two fingers but remains suspended in air, and at the same time light the fire beneath the Balneum.

Keep it in digestion in a gentle heat, as it were of a balneum, and assiduously continue the operation or work upon the fire, till the decoction and digestion is perfect.

I lolled in steaming water to my chin and tried to remember the last time I had sat in a genuine balneum.

One door had led to Hyacinth's balneum, Silk reminded himself, another to her bedchamber.

It's what I call a neat dodge-eliminates the balneum mariae entirely from the processing, cuts down drying time-maybe you aren't familiar with the latest things in the line?

It appeared to me also a good thing to go and bathe, I having heard that the bath [balneum] took its name from the Greek balaneton, because it drives trouble from the mind.