Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRE-CIP'I-TANT
PRE-CIP'I-TANTPRE-CIP'I-TANT-LY
PRE-CIP'I-TANT, n.
In chimistry, a liquor, which when poured on a solution, separates what is dissolved and makes it precipitate, or fall to the bottom in a concrete state. – Encyc.
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