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

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

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..

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..

Distillation :: Distillation (n.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Generator :: Generator (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc..

Tubulation :: Tubulation (n.) The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort..

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

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..

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..

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

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