Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-TILL'A-TION
DIS-TILL'A-BLEDIS-TILL'A-TO-RY
DIS-TILL'A-TION, n.
- The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.
- 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.
- The substance extracted by distilling. – Shak.
- That which falls in drops. – Johnson.
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