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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.

cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.

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 distill again.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Nicholson.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

arts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

less, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

h admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

es forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Boyle.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.