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/dɪstˈɪl/ Listen

verb

Distil v. t. & v. i. See Distill.

Distill v. i. (past & past part. distilled; pres. part. distilling) (Written also distil)

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. "Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain."

To flow gently, or in a small stream. "The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia."

To practice the art of distillation.

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Etymology of 'Distil'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Distil" Quotes from Famous Books

... enamored of the science which Lavoisier cultivated, and became his devoted disciple; but he was young, and handsome as Helvetius, and before long the Parisian women taught him to distil wit and love exclusively. Though he had studied chemistry with such ardor that Lavoisier commended him, he deserted science and his master for those mistresses of fashion and good taste from whom young men take finishing lessons in knowledge ...

— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... external things to prevent themselves being lost in the whirlpool of the internal world of womanhood.... Ah! It was supreme to be a woman, to contain the most fierce and most powerful of all life's manifestations, to smile and to distil all these violent forces into charm, to suffer and to turn ...

— Mummery - A Tale of Three Idealists • Gilbert Cannan

... thing. In addition we must have a dryer of some kind. I suggest that we distil some of the rosin, or the sap from the pitch pine ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... Tom Hunter, whittling the arms of his chair with his bowie-knife; "and as things are so, there is nothing left for us but to plant tobacco or distil whale-oil!" ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

... will think himself well rid of her. She has been the plague of his life. Every drop of her blood is as sharp as the juice of a lime. Her lips distil wormwood. And vinegar is a cloying sweetness compared to her kindest ...

— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson

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