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Various pictograms of a retort; the simplest looks like a '6' (six) rotated 90 degrees.

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1. (alchemy, archaic) retort

🝭a f (genitive 🝭ae); first declension

1. (alchemy) abbreviation of retorta (“retort”)
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 106:

     🜄 iterum ab 🝆 separa quam iterato 🝭ae infunde et hoc repete quousque nil 🝆i cum 🜄 ascenderit tum omnia Misce itermu i.e. 🝆 et 🜄 et in 🝭am positam cuncta age ut prius hoc 3^o repete.

     separate the water from the oil, and again pour it back into the retort, and repeat this until no oil ascends with the water. Then mix everything together again, that is, the oil and water, in the retort, and treat the whole as before; repeat this thrice.

   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 361:

     Spiritus 🜿ri, eſt ʟiquor iſte, qui ex 🜿ro 🝋ſato per 🝭tam cum 🝆 deſtillatur.

     Spirit of tartar is that liquid which is distilled from powdered tartar using a retort with oil.

First-declension noun.

First-declension noun.