Verb

To subject a substance to distillation.

* 1880 , Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah

In fact, it is used in a variety of medicines; we boil, burn, and distil it, to produce salts, corrodents, sublimates,

To undergo or be produced by distillation.

To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.

To exude in small drops.

Firs distil resin.

To impart in small quantities.

To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.

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he'll pretend not to know about mirrors or water or even seeing, but will ask you to give only what can be distilled from what you say.

To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.

To be manifested gently or gradually.

To drip or be wet with.

Verb

(en verb)

To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

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Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.

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Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

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I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

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There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.

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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.