Dictionary 1. ( n.) A return to an argument or a charge; a harsh reply\. n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.2. (n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. 3. (n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity. 4. (n.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response. 5. (n.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
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