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Definition of Decocting
1. decoct [v] - See also: decoct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decocting
Literary usage of Decocting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"The English were connoisseurs in that commodity, and paid fancy prices for the
privilege of decocting the first leaves of the season ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"lations of a little bunch of parsley, thyme, and laurel. The water in which fish
is boiled is prepared beforehand by decocting the same herbs in it. ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"These establishments employ, each on an average, about four men in cutting, mixing
and putting up prescriptions, and in decocting and drying their thousand ..."
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