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▪ I. limbeck, n. arch.|ˈlɪmbɛk|
Forms: 4 lambyke, 5–6 lembike, -byke, 6 lembyck, -beck, lymbeke, 6–7 lim-, lymbeck(e, -bique, 7 limbek, -bic(ke, 6–9 limbec(k.
[aphetized f. alembic.]
= alembic.
c1350Med. MS. in Archæologia XXX. 409 Lambyke. 1460–70Bk. Quintessence 11 Þanne putte it in a lembike and distille it at a good fier. 1529Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 277 A lymbeke for stilling of watters. a1599Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 31 The dull drops, that from his purpled bill, As from a limbeck, did adown distill. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 605 1667 Dryden Secr. Love i. iii, I feel my Strength each Day and Hour consume, Like Lillies wasting in a Lymbeck's Heat. 1713Pope Guardian No. 92 ⁋4 Like a limbeck that gives you, drop by drop, an extract of the simples in it. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 277 Let the distiller pass it and repass it through his limbecs.
Comb.1650Fuller Pisgah iv. i. 16 An engine, which limbecklike extracted sweet water out of the brackish Ocean.
b. fig.
1593Lodge Phillis (1875) 54 My loue doth serue for fire, my hart the fornace is, The aperries of my sighes augment the burning flame, The Limbique is mine eye that doth distill the same. 1598Tofte Alba (1880) 3 What my sad eye Distils from Lymbeck of a bleeding Hart. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 67. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. iii. rule xiv. §29 (1676) 372 The remaining part [of the books of the Fathers] have passed through the limbecks and strainers of Hereticks [etc.]. 1840Hood Miss Kilmansegg, Her Misery ix, The waters that down her visage rilled Were drops of unrectified spirit distilled From the Limbeck of Pride and Vanity. 1887Athenæum 20 Aug. 243/2 There are [in the translation] French forms of expression..which ought to have been passed through the limbeck.
▪ II. † ˈlimbeck, v. Obs.
[f. the n. Cf. OF. lambiquer (16th c.), It. lambiccare.]
1. trans. To treat as in an alembic; to subject to the process of distillation or extraction of essence, etc. Chiefly fig.; esp. to rack or fatigue (the brain) in the effort to extract ideas.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 162 Where the greater doe nothing but limbicke their braines in the Arts of Alchymy and Ballancing. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 50 Wasting my wits, and Limbeking my braines, without drawing any iuice or substance thence at all. a1652Brome Songs, etc. (1661) 255 His Patients grow impatient, and the fear Of death, lymbeck'd their bodies into tears. 1661Feltham Resolves, Disc. Eccl. ii. 11 (1677) 346 And when he had try'd and Lymbeck'd all, the spirit and Extract comes forth, Vanity, Vexation.
2. To distil or extract (an essence, etc.) as by an alembic.
1598Florio, Lambicare, to distill, to limbecke. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 139 The spring⁓head, where Crystall is Lymbeckt all the yeere. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινη Diat. iii. 140 The quintessence to be limbeck'd and distilled [etc.].
Hence ˈlimbecked ppl. a., ˈlimbecking vbl. n.
a1618Sylvester Tobacco battered 233 The stench and Stuff Extracted from their limbeckt Lips and Nose. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 18 Metaphysicall Limbeckings. |