Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.
A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of
which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another
receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic
vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two
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