limbec

English

Verb

limbec (third-person singular simple present limbecs, present participle limbecking, simple past and past participle limbecked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To distill.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Noun

limbec (plural limbecs)

  1. An alembic; a still.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
    • Shakespeare, Macbeth:
      the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for limbec in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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