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Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..

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

Retort :: Retort (v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) The upper part of a retort.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation..

Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To make a retort; to bandy words.

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..

Retorted :: Retorted (imp. & p. p.) of Retor.

Retorting :: Retorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retor.

Synchronal :: Synchoresis (n.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

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..

Retortion :: Retortion (v. t.) Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.

Retort :: Retort (n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

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

Retort :: Retort (n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity..

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..

Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..

Tubulure :: Tubulure (n.) A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation..

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