KJV Dictionary Definition: distill

distill

DISTILL, v.i. L., to drop; a drop. Gr.

1. To drop; to fall in drops.

Soft showers distilld, and suns grew warm in vain.

2. To flow gently, or in a small stream.

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.

3. To use a still; to practice distillation.

DISTILL, v.t.

1. To let fall in drops; to throw down in drops. The clouds distill water on the earth.

The dew, which on the tender grass the evening had distilled.

2. To extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation, and convert that vapor into a liquid by condensation in a refrigeratory; to separate the volatile parts of a substance by heat; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine, or spirit form melasses.

3. To extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; as, to distill cyder or melasses; to distill wine.

4. To extract the pure part of a fluid; as, to distill water.

5. To dissolve or melt. Unusual.

Swords by the lightnings subtle force distilled.

distillable

DISTILLABLE, a. That may be distilled; fit for distillation.

distillation

DISTILLATION, n.

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or throwing down in drops.

2. 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.

3. The substance extracted by distilling.

4. That which falls in drops.

distilled

DISTILLED, pp. Let fall or thrown down inn drops; subjected to the process of distillation; extracted by evaporation.

distiller

DISTILLER, n. One who distills; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by evaporation and condensation.

distilling

DISTILLING, ppr. Dropping; letting fall in drops; extracting by distillation.

distillment

DISTILLMENT, n. That which is drawn by distillation.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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