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 brickwork 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 recipient. There are an infinite variety of stills adapted to particular purposes, of which the most important are the distillation of spirituous liquors. (See lire's Diet, of Arts, SfC.) [s. 1185]