distill
DISTILL, v.i. L., 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, v.t.
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.
distillable
DISTILLABLE, a. That may be distilled; fit for distillation.
distillation
DISTILLATION, n.
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.
distilled
DISTILLED, pp. Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; extracted by evaporation.
distiller
DISTILLER, n. One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.
distilling
DISTILLING, ppr. Dropping; letting fall in drops; extracting by distillation.
distillment
DISTILLMENT, n. That which is drawn by distillation.