Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Limbec \Lim"bec\ (-b[e^]k), n. [Abbrev. of alembic.]
   An alembic; a still. [Obs.] --Spenser. Shak.

Limbec \Lim"bec\, v. t.
   To distill. [Obs.] --Dryden.