decoct
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I observe her decocting a medicine for a sick friend, and I ask her, “What medicine is that?”
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Fuller defines a proverb as "much matter decocted into a few words," and a very good definition it is.
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And then he proceeded with circumspection and dignity to demonstrate the process of decocting that mysterious beverage.
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In seven, injected ℥xi decoct. quercûs into the peritoneum.
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At first it seemed like that of an old-fashioned pot-pourri of lavender, verbena and basalt, such as our grandmothers decocted in their punch-bowls from dried rose-leaves to give their rooms a sweet odour.
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