pistillationt (pistil ash on)

[L. as if * pis tillatio ( n- ), a mortar. The best [diamonds)... are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistil lati on , and resist not an ordinary pestle. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. IMG:content-0268.png:[blocks in formation] Encyc. Brit., IV. 128. [