Retort

·noun To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

II. Retort ·vi To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

III. Retort ·noun To throw back; to Reverberate; to Reflect.

IV. Retort ·noun To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

V. Retort ·vt The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

VI. Retort ·vt 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.