Word Meanings - DISTILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

+ stillare to drop, stilla a drop, prob. fr. stiria frozen drop, 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

Additional info about word: DISTILL

+ stillare to drop, stilla a drop, prob. fr. stiria frozen drop, 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.

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• DROPSICAL
  1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• DROPSICALNESS
  State of being dropsical.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• STIRIATED
  Adorned with pendants like icicles.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• STILLATORY
  1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• STILLATITIOUS
  Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• DROPSIED
  Diseased with drops. Shak.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• DROPSY
  An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• POSTILLATOR
  One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
• INTELLIGENTLY
  In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.