‖n. [ Sp. ] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. apostille. See Postil. ] A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis, skill in joining something, art. See Art. ] 1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artillery park, or
Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. --
Artillery train, or
Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. bâtir. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. [ 1913 Webster ]

The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. “The Bastille”, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist. ] A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To make still. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. cantillatus, p. p. of cantillare to sing low, dim. of cantare. See Cantata. ] To chant; to recite with musical tones. M. Stuart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. cotillon, fr. OF. cote coat, LL. cotta tunic. See Coat. ] 1. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tune which regulates the dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.

4. A formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are first presented to society. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖n. [ Mex. Sp. dim. See Coyote. ] A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Distilled p. pr. & vb. n. Distilling. ] [ F. distiller, from L. destillare, destillatum; de + stillare to drop, stilla a drop, prob. fr. stiria frozen drop, icicle; prob. akin to stare, E. stand. Cf. Still, n. & v., Instill. ] [ Written also distil. ] 1. To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To flow gently, or in a small stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To practice the art of distillation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To let fall or send down in drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rain. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dew which on the tender grass
The evening had distilled. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obtain by distillation; to subject to a process of evaporation and subsequent condensation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. “Distilling odors on me.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dissolve or melt. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. to extract out and present the essence of; to shorten and refine; to present the essential elements of; -- of ideas or texts. [ PJC ]

a. (Chem.) Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. distillation, L. destillatio. ] 1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which falls in drops. [ R. ] Johnson [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The evaporation of water, its condensation into clouds, and its precipitation as rain, dew, frost, snow, or hail, is an illustration of natural distillation. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The substance extracted by distilling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Destructive distillation (Chem.), the distillation, especially of complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. --
Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. --
Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fractional. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. distillatoire. ] Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n. A distillatory apparatus; a still. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condenser of a distilling apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Distilleries [ F. distillerie. ] 1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of distilling spirits. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Extilled p. pr. & vb. n. Extilling. ] [ L. extillare, exstillare; ex out + stillare to drop, stilla drop. ] To drop or distill. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Distillation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who finestills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. flotilla, dim. of flota fleet; akin to F. flotte, It. flotta, and F. flot wave, fr. L. fluctus, but prob. influenced by words akin to E. float. See Fluctuate, and cf. Float, n. ] A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. fritillus dicebox: cf. F. fritillaire. So named from the checkered markings of the petals. ] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ From Gentil, a. ] In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Instilled p. pr. & vb. n. Instilling. ] [ L. instillare, instillatum; pref. in- in + stillare to drop, fr. stilla a drop: cf. F. instiller. See Distill. ] [ Written also instil. ] 1. To drop in; to pour in drop by drop. [ 1913 Webster ]

That starlight dews
All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To infuse (knowledge or attitudes) into the mind of another, slowly or gradually; to impart gradually; to cause to be imbibed. [ PJC ]

How hast thou instilled
Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

Syn. -- To infuse; impart; inspire; implant; inculcate; insinuate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. instillatio: cf. F. instillation. ] The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instiller. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to instillation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who instills. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [ Written also instilment. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. See Mantle. ] 1. A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America.
Syn. -- genus Myrtillocactus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. octo eight + -illion, as in E. million: cf. F. octillion. ] According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. pastille, L. pastillusa pastus food. See Pasture, and cf. Pastel. ] 1. (Pharmacy) A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An aromatic or medicated lozenge, especially one used to soothe a sore throat; a troche. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- cough drop, troche. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. See Pastel, a crayon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. pestillum, L. pistillum. See Pestle. ] The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pistillum a pestle. ] The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pistillida [ NL., fr. E. pistil. ] (Bot.) Same as Archegonium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pistil + -ferous: cf. F. pistillifère. ] (Bot.) Pistillate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pistil + Gr. e'i^dos form. ] (Bot.) The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Painting) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as (stippling). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ LL. postillatus, p. p. of postillare. ] To explain by marginal notes; to postil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]