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DISTILL, 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,

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.

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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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Entry for 'Distill'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/distill.html.

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