DISTILLERY, the art of distilling brandy and other spirits. This art was first brought into Europe by the Moors of Spain, about the year 1150: they learned it of the African Moors, who had it from the Egyptians; and the Egyptians are said to have practised it in the reign of the emperor Dioclesian, though it was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. See DISTILLATION and FERMENTATION.