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To make still.

To chant; to recite with musical tones. M. Stuart.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

tion 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 o…

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.

To drop or distill. [Obs.] Johnson.

Distillation. [Obs.] An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

One who finestills.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.