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ion 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 by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of…

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Shak.

The sill or threshold of a door.

Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

One who, or that which, drills.

The act of piercing with a drill.

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay.

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

Having the form of a duck's bill. Duck's-bill limpet (Zoöl.), a limpet of the genus Parmaphorus; -- so named from its shape.

Having a bill like that of a duck..

See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill.

The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]

y mean situation or condition; a vile abode. He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.