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FAINTS

Volume 17 · 63 words · 1810 Edition

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

FAINTS are also the last runnings of all distilled spirits. 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.