The cucurbit containing the solution is set on a sand-bath gently heated, and very clean plates of copper put into it.
What is left in the bottom of the cucurbit is the metal that was added, still containing a little Arsenic, which continues obstinately fixed with it, and which the violence of fire is unable to force away from it in close vessels.
Put into a cucurbit the Essential Oil you propose to rectify.
Cover the cucurbitwith its head, and lute it on with slips of sized paper or wet bladder.
Put the matter remaining in the cucurbit into a retort, and distil with a graduated heat.
Set this cucurbit in a sand-bath; warm the vessels gently, and increase the fire by degrees, till you perceive that no more Arsenic sublimes.
Continue distilling this first liquor, till the vinegar contained in the cucurbitbe diminished about a fourth part.
In the cucurbit you will find your Whites of Eggs considerably shrunk in their bulk.
Pour on them two ounces of water, and set the cucurbit into a sand-bath.
When the water in the cucurbit boils, it will be known by the noise that boiling water usually makes, which is produced by the numerous bubbles that rise and burst on its surface.
At the bottom of the cucurbit will be found a sulphureous mass, containing the greatest part of the adventitious matters that were mixed with the Sulphur, and more or less red or dark-coloured, according to the nature of those matters.
Then unlute the vessels; and if you have not as much liquor as you want, take out of the cucurbit the plant already distilled, and put a fresh one in its place.
The entire apparatus was sometimes constructed of glass, but it was more usual to make the cucurbit of copper or earthenware, and the capital alone of glass.
These are vessels of stone or porcelain ware, which adjust to each other over a cucurbit containing the sulphur to be sublimed.
This apparatus consists of a cucurbit and capital of tinned copper or brass, Pl.
Fit to the cucurbit a head with a short neck, and lute on the refrigeratory vessel.
Fill a cucurbit two thirds full with unwashed Lavender Flowers, pour upon them as much clear Water as will float about two inches above the Flowers.
Fill a glass or stone cucurbit half full of fresh gathered Rosemary-tops picked in their prime; pour on them as much Spirit of Wine as will thoroughly soak them.
A small quantity of acid Liquor still remains in the cucurbit of the consistence of Honey, which if you think proper may be dried hard by the assistance of a vapour-bath.
Then lute your cucurbit again, and encrease the fire so as to cause the Spirit to rise fast over the helm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cucurbit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
