STILL

(Lat. still are, to drop.) An apparatus for the distillation of liquids upon the large scale. It includes the body, or boiler, which is usually set in brick work over a furnace, and to which is annexed the head, forming the communication between the boiler and condenser or worm pipe; from the extremity of which the distilled liquid pa es in succe ive drops, or a small continuous stream, into the rer,iptt,d. There are an infinite variety of stills adapted to particular pur|>oses, of which the most important are the distil at i on.it' spirituous liquors, (rice Lire's Diet, of Arts, <$•£.) [s. 1195]