distillate (distil at)

[L. distill at us, pp. of distill are, distil: see distil and- atel.] In chem., a fluid distilled and found in the receiver of a distilling apparatus; the product of distillation. Sufficient air is admitted to burn the distillates , and thus to produce the heat required for the distillation itself. Science, VI. 525. distillation (dis-ti-lā'shon), n. [ Gayn [against] fals enuy, thynk on my charite, My blode alle spilt by distill a cion . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 112. 2. The volatilization and subsequent condensation of a liquid by means of an alembic, a still and refrigeratory, or a retort and receiver; the operation of obtaining the spirit, e ence, or e ential oil of a substance by the evaporation and condensation of the liquid in which it has been macerated; rectification; in the widest sense, the whole proce of extracting the e ential principle of a substance. The most common method of conducting the proce of distillation consists have different boiling-points. The proce in the arts, in the manufacture of alcohol and spirituous liquors, for preparing e ences and e ential oils, and for a great variety of other purposes. I study here the mathematics, And distillation . B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1. 3. The substance extracted by distilling. I suffered the pangs of three several deaths;... to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 5. 41. That which falls in drops, as in nasal catarrh. It [exercise injudiciously used) bredeth Rheumes, Catarrhs and distillations . Touchstone of Complexions , p. 104. Distillation by descent. See descent. - Dry or destructive distillation, the destruction of a substance by heat in a closed ve el and the collection of the volatile matters evolved. Thus, illuminating gas is a product of the destructive distillation of coal. - Fractional distillation, an operation for separating two liquids which have differ ent boiling points. The mixture is distilled in an apparatus which admits constant observation of the temperature, and the liquids obtained between certain intervals of temperature (five or ten degrees) are collected separately. The more volatile liquid will be found chiefly in the "fractions" first collected; and by repeating the proce with the first fraction, this more volatile liquid may be obtained in a state of comparative or absolute purity. distillatory (dis-til'a-to-ri), a. and n. [ Having in well closed distillatory gla es caught the fumes driven over by heat. Boyle, Works, I. 136. II. n.; pl. distill a tories (-riz). An apparatus used in distillation; a still. Thanne muste ze do make in the furneis of aischin, a distillatorie of glas al hool of oo ресе. Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 4.