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Return :: Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..

Provocation :: Provocation (n.) Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress..

Quip :: Quip (n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe..

Neck :: Neck (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd..

Lash :: Lash (n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

Antistrophon :: Antistrophon (n.) An argument retorted on an opponent.

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters..

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.

Cremate :: Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Reprisal :: Reprisal (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity..

Retort :: Retort (v. t.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response..

Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent..

Setdown :: Setdown (n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting..

Retorter :: Retorter (n.) One who retorts.

Bombolo :: Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor..

Retorsion :: Retorsion (n.) Same as Retortion.

Retort :: Retort (n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

Pretorture :: Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.

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