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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Distil

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Distill

DISTILL, verb intransitive [Latin , to drop; a drop. Gr.]

1. To drop; to fall in drops.

Soft showers distilld, and suns grew warm in vain.

2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.

3. To use a still; to practice distillation.

DISTILL, verb transitive

1. To let fall in drops; to throw down in drops. The clouds distill water on the earth.

The dew, which on the tender grass the evening had distilled.

2. To extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation, and convert that vapor into a liquid by condensation in a refrigeratory; to separate the volatile parts of a substance by heat; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine, or spirit form melasses.

3. To extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; as, to distill cyder or melasses; to distill wine.

4. To extract the pure part of a fluid; as, to distill water.

5. To dissolve or melt. [Unusual.]

Swords by the lightnings subtle force distilled.


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Distillable

DISTILLABLE, adjective That may be distilled; fit for distillation.


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Distillation

DISTILLATION, noun

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.

2. The vaporization and subsequent condensation of a liquid by means of an alembic, or still and refrigeratory, or of a retort and receiver; the operation of extracting spirit from a substance by evaporation and condensation; rectification.

3. The substance extracted by distilling.

4. That which falls in drops.


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Distillatory

DISTILLATORY, adjective Belonging to distillation; used for distilling; as distillatory vessels.


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Distilled

DISTILLED, participle passive Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; extracted by evaporation.


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Distiller

DISTILLER, noun One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.


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Distillery

DISTILLERY, noun

1. The act or art of distilling.

2. The building and works where distilling is carried on.


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Distilling

DISTILLING, participle present tense Dropping; letting fall in drops; extracting by distillation.


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Distillment

DISTILLMENT, noun That which is drawn by distillation.


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  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
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