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Definition of Distils
1. distil [v] - See also: distil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distils
Literary usage of Distils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"The following are typical samples of this type: Initial b. p 148° 146° 146* 153*
1234 distils below 155° 3% 3% 5.5% 1% distils I5S°-I60° 3% 3% 5% 3% distils ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"A small portion of the base distils over undecomposed (Zinin). It is only slightly
soluble in cold water or alcohol, bnt freely so in hot alcohol. ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Their vessels of burden are constructed of a species of thorn, which resembles
the lotos of Cyrene, and which distils a gum. From this thorn they cut planks ..."
4. The Chemical Trade Journal and Oil, Paint and Colour Review (1892)
"Contents of retort are foaming strongly, acid distils rapidly. Mass is foaming,
nitrate dissolves rapidly, nitric acid distils well. ..."
5. The Reliques of Father Prout by Francis Sylvester Mahony (1860)
"distils. Secure from interlopers Gin is a lurking riper, Free o'er my lawn to
wander, At peaceful " Sunday's well." And Reason pays the piper, ..."
6. A Centennial History of St. Albans, Vermont by Henry Kingman Adams (1889)
"distils AND HOTELS. In the early history of the town distils and Hotels were more
numerous than churches and schools. Of the former there was one at the ..."
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