distilled water
noun
water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
distilled waters
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pluralof distilled water.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The tops used to enter three of our distilled waters, and give name to a conserve.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
In this capital, you no longer find among the fair sex those over-delicate constitutions, whose artificial existence could be maintained only by salts, essences, and distilled waters.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
The younger ones ran for aromatic salts, while the lady of the house fetched some very peculiar distilled waters.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
Tom and myself, nothing loth, obeyed the hint, and sipped our modicums of distilled waters out of our private flasks.
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert
On a table stood another very rare and curious thing--a gold or silver-gilt fountain that threw up distilled waters, and continually cooled and sweetened the air.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
