distill

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7

Definition of distill

1 sense · 1 part of speech

verb

  1. (US, alt-of, standard)US standard spelling of distil.
    “There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.”
    “My doctrine ſhall drop as the raine: my ſpeach ſhall diſtill as the deaw, as the ſmal raine vpon the tender herbe, and as the ſhowres vpon the graſſe.”
    “So vvhen tvvo Boars, in vvild Ytene bred, / Or on VVeſtphalia’s fatt’ning Cheſt-nuts fed, / […] / In the black Flood they vvallovv o’er and o’er, / ’Till their arm’d Javvs diſtill vvith Foam and Gore.”
    “The wine which from yon wounded palm on high / Fills yonder gourd, as slowly it distills, / Grows sour at once if Lorrinite pass by.”
    “Carbonic acid is a limpid colourless body, extremely fluid, and floating upon the other contents of the tube. It distills readily and rapidly at the difference of temperature between 32° and 0°.”

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