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• ALEMBIC (Arab. al, definite article, anbiq, a still; cognate to the • Gr. agOtE, a cup)

ALEMBIC (Arab. al, definite See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article, anbiq, a still; cognate to the • Gr. agOtE, a See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup)  , an apparatus for See also:

• DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation, used chiefly by the alchemists, and now superseded by the See also:

• RETORT (Lat. retorquere, to twist or turn back)

retort and the See also:

• WORM

worm-still . It varied considerably in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and construction, but consisted essentially of three parts—a See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel containing the material to be distilled and called, from its See also:

• GOURD

gourd-like shape, the cucurbit or mattrass; a vessel to receive and condense the vapour, called the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head or See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital; and a See also:

• RECEIVER

receiver for the spirit, connected by a See also:

• PIPE

pipe with the capital . The entire apparatus was sometimes constructed of See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, but it was more usual to make the cucurbit of See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper or earthenware; and the capital alone of glass .