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To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.] "Decoct their cold blood." Shak.

Capable of being boiled or digested.

The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

A decoction. [R.]

A decoction or infusion. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

d (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

getable acid, C6H5.CO2H, obtained from benzoin, and some other balsams, by sublimation or decoction. It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde, oil of bit…

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.…

A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

lk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot.

e taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. Give me some drink, Titinius. Shak.

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of…

rmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. Ure.

ng a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

ms which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.

A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.