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

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

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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