alembic

• The largest battery-alembic had last been used for distilling rose water, and seeing it Khalid snorted. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The alembic, in my mind, has furnished to the world a far greater benefit and blessing than if the opus maximum had been really found by chemistry, and, like Midas, we could turn everything into gold Undoubtedly there may be a dangerous abuse in the excess of spirits; and at one time I am ready to believe the abuse was great. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
• It is a sponge in infancy that imbibes ideas without an effort; it is a safety-valve through which fancy and poetry conduct away foul vapors; it is an alembic, retaining only the pure and valuable of all that is poured into it, to be stored for future use. —  Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs"
• Part of this very barn, of which he always kept the key, was found to have been fitted up as a complete laboratory, with athanor, alembic, cucurbite, and other appliances, some of which the master destroyed at once--perhaps for the best--and which I have only been able to guess at Black Arts," I laughed Who knows?" —  The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
• You pass it through alembic after alembic, it comes out still a Dishonesty, with a new dress on it, a new colour to it. —  Past and Present

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