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Definition of distil

distil
Distill Dis*till", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Distilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Distilling.] [F. distiller, from L. destillare, destillatum; de + stillare to drop, stilla a drop, prob. fr. stiria frozen drop, icicle; prob. akin to stare, E. stand. Cf. Still, n. & v., Instill.] [Written also distil.] 1. To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. --Pope. 2. To flow gently, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. To practice the art of distillation. --Shak.
Distil
Distil Dis*til", v. t. & i. See Distill.

Meaning of distil from wikipedia

- and was applied to any process where a liquid was separated in drops. To distil in the modern sense could only be expressed in a roundabout manner. Distillation...
- Persian scholar Rāzi (or Rhazes) was the first to distil kerosene in the ninth century. He is depicted here in a m****cript by Gerard of Cremona....
- distill in the presence of sulfuric acid. Although the acid itself does not distil, it imparts the additional aroma of diethyl ether to the resulting gin....
- good crystallised Sal-ammoniac, dissolve by moisture, and distil (the mixture). There will distil over a strong water, which will cleave stone (sakhr) instantly...
- I was reading. It was the best draft I had ever seen. He had managed to distil 1,000 pages of the novels into six hours, using prose so sensitively. He's...
- Michael Berlin was published in 1996, and its heraldic motto is Drop as Rain, Distil as Dew. H. R. Trevor-Roper; Blair Worden, ed., Europe's physician: the various...
- Take white (Yemeni) alum, dissolve it and purify it by filtration. Then distil (green?) vitriol with copper-green (the acetate), and mix (the distillate)...
- good crystallised Sal-ammoniac, dissolve by moisture, and distil (the mixture). There will distil over a strong water, which will cleave stone (sakhr) instantly...
- an earlier date when a royal licence was granted to a local landowner to distil whiskey in the area. After various periods of closure in its subsequent...
- uniCOIL, EPIC, DeepImpact, TILDE and TILDEv2, Sparta, SPLADE-max, and DistilSPLADE-max. There are also extensions of sp**** retrieval approaches to the...