Definitions for alembics

alembics a·lem·bic

Spelling: [uh-lem-bik]
IPA: /əˈlɛm bɪk/

Alembics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 485 anagrams from letters in alembics (abceilms).

Definitions for alembics

noun

  1. a vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling.
  2. anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.

Origin of alembics

1350-1400; Middle English, variant of alambic Medieval Latin alambicus dialectal Arabic al the anbīq still Greek ámbix cup

Examples for alembics

A French physician, who travelled in China, says he never saw an alembic or distillatory apparatus in the whole country.

This is the crucible from which is distilled the alembic of power.

I then turned my attention to a receiver, connected by a worm with an alembic on the furnace.

Mete out the sulphur Into the alembic Of Cleopatra's crystal.

As in a chemist's alembic, he fused and tried our Constitution and all our history.

Better perhaps the alembic and the pentagon than the faro-table and the dice-box.

In some countries, the alembic is used as a condenser, instead of a worm.

The golden ore was passing through the alembic of adversity.

From the alembic a strange cloud arose, And once again her face!

And gold they prove, when submitted to the test of the alembic.

Word Value for alembics
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13

Words with friends

17

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