distil (3 is much the commonest S. use)
1.
to fall in
minute drops Tit. III. i. 17.
2.
to let fall in minute
drops Tit. II. iii. 201, Rom. V. iii. 15.
3.
to obtain or extract
the essence of, also to obtain (the quintessence) by
extraction or distillation (lit. and fig.)
MND. I. i. 76
“the rose d-'d,”
AYL. III. ii. 153
“Nature presently d-'d
Helen's cheek,”
All'sW. II. iv. 47,
H5 IV. i. 5,
Troil. I. iii. 350
“a man d-'d Out of our
virtues,”
Mac. III. v. 26; used
absol.
Cym. I. v. 13
“To make perfumes?
distil? preserve?.”
4.
to melt Ham. I. ii. 204 (F1
“bestil'd”).
