Meanings of alembic (alembics) in English

There amongst her retorts and alembics all my questions would be answered.

They were the alembics in which thought was fused and crystallized.

Small alembics of copper with a glass capital, may be used in three different ways.

On this stood a number of phials and small boxes, together with several retorts and alembics.

He found a door, but it led into a closet, filled with alembics and other equipment.

All about were scattered various pieces of apparatus, test tubes, alembics, retorts, flasks, and an electric furnace.

Scientists moved purposely through the gloom, feeding mice to their organic alembics and sprinkling nutrients into pulsing bioreactors.

The floor was strewed with retorts, crucibles, alembics, jars, and bottles of various shapes, inter-mingled with old books.

The large athanor dominating the center of the room and various alembics steaming away on a table suggested alchemy.

It was a small room with a high ceiling and shelves around the walls, on which stood alembics and retorts.

A few alembics, perhaps.

It represents a gloomy cell; in the centre is a table loaded with hideous objects; skulls, spheres, alembics, compasses, hieroglyphic parchments.

Metaphors are powerless in astronomy; epithets are useless as alembics; images, be they never so beautiful, will fail to convince the physiologist.

Here Reginald Eversleigh beheld stoves, retorts, alembics, distilling apparatus; all the strange machinery of that science which always seems dark and mysterious to the ignorant.

It was strewed with the wrecks of retorts and alembics, with old crucibles, boxes and phials of powders and tinctures, and half-burnt books and manuscripts.

We are the Three Absolutes, the Three Redeemers, the three Alembics-theMost Beautiful Man, the Strongest Man and the Ugliest Man.