Definition of Alembec
A*lem"bic (&adot;*l&ebreve;m"b&ibreve;k), n.
[F. alambic (cf. Sp. alambique), Ar. al-anbīq,
fr. Gr. 'a`mbix cup, cap of a still. The cap or head was the
alembic proper. Cf. Limbec.] An apparatus formerly used
in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place
to the retort and worm still.
Used also metaphorically.
The alembic of a great poet's imagination.
Brimley.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- an early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation
*1973: We of all magical precipitates out of Europe's groaning, clouded alembic, we are the thinnest, the most dangerous, the handiest to secular uses — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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