"limbec" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See alembic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "limbecs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "limbecs",
        "2": "limbecking",
        "3": "limbecked"
      },
      "expansion": "limbec (third-person singular simple present limbecs, present participle limbecking, simple past and past participle limbecked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1627, John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day, being the shortest day:",
          "text": "I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To distill."
      ],
      "id": "en-limbec-en-verb-2YnuD4wM",
      "links": [
        [
          "distill",
          "distill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To distill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪmbɪk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbec"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See alembic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "limbecs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "limbec (plural limbecs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And the dull drops that from his purpled bill As from a limbec",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An alembic; a still."
      ],
      "id": "en-limbec-en-noun-wRgwL0uv",
      "links": [
        [
          "alembic",
          "alembic"
        ],
        [
          "still",
          "still"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪmbɪk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbec"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See alembic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "limbecs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "limbecked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "limbecs",
        "2": "limbecking",
        "3": "limbecked"
      },
      "expansion": "limbec (third-person singular simple present limbecs, present participle limbecking, simple past and past participle limbecked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1627, John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day, being the shortest day:",
          "text": "I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To distill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "distill",
          "distill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To distill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪmbɪk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbec"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See alembic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "limbecs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "limbec (plural limbecs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And the dull drops that from his purpled bill As from a limbec",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An alembic; a still."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alembic",
          "alembic"
        ],
        [
          "still",
          "still"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪmbɪk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbec"
}