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PELICAN

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a genus of birds belonging to the order of anatidae. See Ornithology Index.

in Chemistry, is a glass alembic consisting of one piece, with a tubulated capital, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out, and enter again at the bottom of the cucurbit. This vessel was contrived by the older chemists for a continued distillation, but has gone into disuse.