= alembic, n.

A vessel or retort, originally gourd-shaped, used in distillation and other chemical (or alchemical) processes, or for keeping liquids, etc., in…

Chemistry. An early apparatus used for distilling, consisting of two connected vessels, a typically gourd-shaped cucurbit (cucurbit, n.1 1)…

A kind of retort or still. Obsolete. (Cf. serpent, n.)

Chemistry and Alchemy. An alembic having two curved tubes which pass down from the head on opposite sides and re-enter at the body of the vessel…

Chemistry. A (usually glass) container with a bulb and a long downward-curving neck, used in distilling liquids and in other chemical operations…

transferred. = cucurbit, n.1 1. Obsolete.

= cucurbitule, n.

An old name for a retort or alembic of some kind.

A retort, still, or flask with a long neck, esp. one made of earthenware or metal (rather than glass). Obsolete.

an egg-shaped glass vessel with a long neck, used for heating substances over a long period of time; = philosophers' egg n. at philosopher, n.…

A vessel for making infusions; †spec. a retort.

An alembic.

More fully vessel of rencounter. = retort, n.1 1. Obsolete.