[Gr. sentence ἐκκαλέω βίον (intended to mean ‘I evoke life’) written as one word.] The name given to an egg-hatching apparatus invented by W. Bucknell about 1839.
1839. Bucknell (title), The Eccaleobion; a Treatise on Artificial Incubation.
1847. Craig, Eccaleobion, a contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
1880. Harper’s Mag., LXI. 787/2. Willis’s Home Journal was at one time a very eccaleobion of young writers.
