Distill
[dɪs'tɪl]
Definition
(verb.) give off (a liquid); 'The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound'.
(verb.) undergo the process of distillation.
(verb.) extract by the process of distillation; 'distill the essence of this compound'.
Inputed by Josiah--From WordNet
Definition
(n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
(n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream.
(n. & v) To practice the art of distillation.
(v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops.
(v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water.
(v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.
(v. t.) To dissolve or melt.
Edited by Bradley
Examples
- Tar then distils, with some portions of gas, consisting of hydrogen and ammonia. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Resin oil distils off easily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the annual report of the president of a distilling company I once saw the statement that business had increased in the dry states. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Turpentine, for example, is made by distilling the sap of pine trees. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Method of distilling liquids by incandescent conductor immersed in the liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Laboratory processes like distilling, filtering, crystallization, sublimation, became known to the Europeans through them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A dangerous but very extensively used illuminating liquid before coal oil was discovered was camphene, distilled from turpentine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They taught also how the gas should be distilled, condensed, cleaned, scrubbed, confined in retorts, and its flow measured and controlled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Peppermint, spearmint and other oils used are triply distilled and absolutely free of all impurities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I'll be a double distilled saint. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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