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

Bombolo :: Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor..

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

Retortive :: Retortive (a.) Containing retort.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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