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

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

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

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

Floorer :: Floorer (n.) Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities..

Alembic :: Alembic (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still..

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

Still :: Still (v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation..

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..

Converter :: Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Coating :: Coating (n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial..

Pay :: Pay (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon..

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

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

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