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Volume 4 · 65 words · 1778 Edition

the distillery, the weak spirituous liquor that runs from the still in rectifying the low wines after the proof-spirit is taken off.

Faints, is also the last runnings of all spirits distilled by the alembic. The clearing the worm of these is so essential a point in order to the obtaining a pure spirit by the subsequent distillation, that all others are fruitless without it.