different between limbec vs limbic

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See alembic

limbec (third-person singular simple present limbecs, present participle limbecking, simple past and past participle limbecked)

(obsolete, transitive) To distill.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- c. 1627, John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day, being the shortest day
  I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.

limbec (plural limbecs)

An alembic; a still.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.

From French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).

limbic (not comparable)

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