Definition of "cucurbite" []

• Archaic form of cucurbit. (noun)

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• "There we saw a man casting his net to catch fish, and presently he pulled them up and behold, in them was a cucurbite of copper, stopped with lead and sealed with the signet of Solomon, son of David, on whom be peace!"
• "Then he took the brazen vessels and opened them, cucurbite after cucurbite, whereupon the devils came forth of them, saying, We repent, O Prophet of"
• "Ifrits to shut him in a brazen vessel245 so they put him in a brazen cucurbite and sealed it with lead."