in ornithology. See Pelicanus.

chemistry, is a glass alembic consisting of one piece. It has a tubulated capital, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out, and enter again at the belly of the cucurbit. This vessel has been contrived for a continued distillation and cohabitation, which chemists call circulation. The volatile parts of substances put into this vessel rise into the capital, and are obliged to return through the crooked beaks into the cucurbit; and this without interruption, or luting and unluting the vessels.

Although the pelican seems to be a very convenient instru- instrument, it is nevertheless little used, and even much neglected at present; either because the modern chemists have not so much patience as the ancient chemists had for making long experiments; or because they find that two matresses, the mouth of one of which is inserted into the mouth of the other, produce the same effect.