distill

DISTILL, verb intransitive [Latin , to drop; a drop. Gr.] 1. To drop; to fall in drops. Soft showers distilld, and suns grew warm in vain. 2. To flow gently, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. 3. To use a still; to practice distillation. DISTILL, verb transitive 1. To let fall in drops; to throw down in drops. The clouds distill water on the earth. The dew, which on the tender grass the evening had distilled. 2. To extract by heat; to separate spirit or essential oils from liquor by heat or evaporation, and convert that vapor into a liquid by condensation in a refrigeratory; to separate the volatile parts of a substance by heat; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine, or spirit form melasses. 3. To extract spirit from, by evaporation and condensation; as, to distill cyder or melasses; to distill wine. 4. To extract the pure part of a fluid; as, to distill water. 5. To dissolve or melt. [Unusual.] Swords by the lightnings subtle force distilled.