condenſed again by cold. Thus it is generally taken,
but how more particularly, I ſhall afterward ſhew.
Digeſtion, is a contracting, or maturation of crude things by an eaſie, and gentle heat.
Diſſolution, is the turning of bodies into a liquor by the addition of ſome humidity.
Dulcoration, or dulcification is either the waſhing off the ſalt from any matter that was calcined therewith, with warm water, in which the ſalt is diſſolved, and the matter dulcified: or it is ſweetening of things with ſugar or honey, or ſyrup.
E.
Elevation, is the riſing of any matter in manner of fume, or vapour by vertue of heat.
Evaporation, or Exhalation, is the vapouring away of any moiſture.
Exaltation, is when any matter doth by digeſtion attain to a greater purity.
Expreſſion, is the extracting of any liquor by the hand, or by a preſse.
Extraction, is the drawing forth of an eſſence from a corporeall matter by ſome fit liquor as ſpirit of wine, the feces remaining in the bottome.
F.
Fermentation, is when any thing is reſolved into itſelf, and is rarified, and ripened, whether it be done by any ferment added to it or by digeſtion only.
Filtration, is the ſeparation of any liquid matter from itſ feces by making it run through a brown paper made like a tunnell, or a little bag of wollen cloth, or through ſhreds.
Fixation, is the making of any volatile, ſpirituall body endure the fire, and not fly away, whether it be done by often reiterated diſtillations, or ſublimations, or by the adding of ſome fixing thing to it.
Fumigation, is the calcining of bodies by the fume of ſharp ſpirits whether vegetable or minerall, the bodies being laid
