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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIMBEC

n.[contracted from alembic. ] A still; a word not now used.

 

LIMBEC

v.t.To strain or pass through a still. Obs.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LIMBEC

Lim "bec, n. Etym: [Abbrev. of alembic. ]

 

Defn: An alembic; a still. [Obs. ] Spenser. Shak.

 

LIMBEC

LIMBEC Lim "bec, v. t.

 

Defn: To distill. [Obs. ] Dryden.