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Decoction n.

The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. "In decoction... it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom."

An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. "If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant." "In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Decoction" Quotes from Famous Books

... detailed admonition, kept Rosy-Lilly from again obtruding upon the patient's leisure; and McWha had nothing to do but smoke and whittle. He whittled diligently, but let no one see what he was making. Then, borrowing a small tin cup from the cook, he fussed over the stove with some dark, smelly decoction of tobacco-juice and ink. Rosy-Lilly was consumed with curiosity, especially when she saw him apparently digging beads off an Indian tobacco-pouch which he always carried. But she did not go near enough to get enlightened as to ...

— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts

... huge, seething cauldron.—This was the mystical cauldron of Ceridwen which Taliesin considered to be the source of poetic inspiration. Three drops, he avers, of the seething decoction enabled him to forsee all the secrets ...

— The Visions of the Sleeping Bard • Ellis Wynne

... the Peanut is parched and ground the same as coffee, the mode of decoction the same, and it is taken with cream and ...

— The Peanut Plant - Its Cultivation And Uses • B. W. Jones

... returned to the heart. To show a similarity of circumstances in the leaves of plants, the following experiment was made, June 24, 1781. A stalk with leaves and seed-vessels of large spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia) had been several days placed in a decoction of madder (Rubia tinctorum) so that the lower part of the stem and two of the undermost leaves were immersed in it. After having washed the immersed leaves in clear water I could readily discover the color of the madder passing along ...

— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... the chorus that rang out from all. After Mr Ross's arm had been stripped, and some decoction of Indian herbs, which were quickly gathered, had been applied, Sam told of his suspicions when the eyelids quivered, and of his precaution in getting his gun ready. Of course it would have been better if he had mentioned it at the time, but he feared to be ...

— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

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