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Distillment

Distillment \Dis*till"ment\, n. Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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distillment

n. The extract produced by distillation.

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distillment

n. the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors [syn: distillation]

Usage examples of "distillment".

Richard also remembered sitting in the dark dining room, his chin sticky with spiritous distillment, and listening to the Labrador as it whinnied in nightmare or labor, and hoping that no one would come down to tend her, and feeling the comfort of the community of pain .

The history of that election reveals, with great clearness, the extent to which slavery has shot its leprous distillment through the life-blood of the nation.