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Return :: Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Retortive :: Retortive (a.) Containing retort.

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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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