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Definition of Phlegms
1. phlegm [n] - See also: phlegm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlegms
Literary usage of Phlegms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Confectioner, Or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy by Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson (1800)
"... is, that whether they have been put in digestion or not; whether the phlegms
or faints have rose before the spirits, or the spirit* before the ..."
2. Wood products: Distillates and Extracts by Paul Dumesny, J. Noyer (1908)
"... the liquid issuing from the condenser is collected, according to the stage
the distillation has reached, in one of the two tanks reserved for phlegms, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Taxation of Fixed Capital by Emile-Justin Menier, James O'Gallighan (1880)
"By tolerance, be it well understood, the excise allows him to distil phlegms of
treacle at 25 degrees only, to be converted into vinegar up to 25 degrees ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1893)
"Influence of the Acidity of Worts on the Composition of the phlegms. ...
The phlegms obtained from acidulous worts contain more higher alcohols than those ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"These phlegms, or condensed liquids, are partially redistilled in their progress;
and the remainder pass through the fifth, or lowest, of these reversed ..."
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