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Recriminatory :: Recriminatory (a.) Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

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

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.

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

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

Retortion :: Retortion (v. t.) Retaliation.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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