limbec

/ˈlɪmbɪk/

verb 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

grave

VERB + LIMBEC

reason

PREP.

from

ADV.

only

verb

To distill.

I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.

noun

Alternative spelling of limbeck (“alembic; still”).

And the dull drops that from his purpled bill As from a limbec

the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.

I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.

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And the dull drops that from his purpled bill As from a limbec

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the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.

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