Decoction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECOCTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues
• a concentrated liquor resulting from heating or boiling a substance, especially a medicinal preparation made from a plant
• the action or process of extracting the essence of something
• extraction by boiling
• The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
• An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
• (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an extract obtained by decocting

Words related to DECOCTION

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Words that contain DECOCTION

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How to use DECOCTION in a sentence

• I passed the bottle pretty briskly, telling them the liquor was a favourite decoction of mine, which they might drink without any scruple.
• At the celebration of sacred mysteries there was a caldron for the preparation of a decoction from plants held in high esteem.
• The Kaffirs make a decoction of it in South Africa.
• The decoction is also useful against whooping-cough in its spasmodic stage.
• To make a decoction of the root, one part of this dried, and sliced, should be gently boiled for fifteen minutes in twenty parts of water, and strained off when cool.
• Country folk in Somersetshire purge themselves to good purpose with a decoction made from the root.
• The decoction may be made from the whole fresh plant, or from the dried root sliced, two to four ounces being put in a quart of water, reduced to a pint by boiling.
• Also the decoction of the leaves and stalks taken in moderate quantities is capital for many of the minor skin maladies.
• They corresponded so nicely in each trial that I declare I never saw any two things in Nature more alike the decoction made with the powder found in Mr.

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