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An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

ormed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.

horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic mining, a system of mining in which the force of a jet of water is used to wash down a bank of gold-bearing gravel or earth. [Pacific Coast]…

; tempting; as, an inviting amusement or prospect. Nothing is so easy and inviting as the retort of abuse and sarcasm. W. Irving. -- In*vit"ing*ly, adv. -- In*vit"ing*ness, n. Jer. Taylor.

A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. L'Estrange.

ling joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.

guratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson.

A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress.

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson.

A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. Shak.

A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. Vattel (Trans. )

orthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure. What if thy son Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, "Wherefore didst thou beget me" Milton.

Same as Retortion.

To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. Dryden.

To make a retort; to bandy words. [Obs.]

The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.