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† ˈstillery Obs.
Also 7 stillary.
[f. still v.2 + -ery.]
1. ? A still. In quots. fig.
1595Chapman Ovid's Banq. Sence B 4 b, Thus should I be her notes, before they be; While in her blood they sitte with fierye wings Not vapord in her voyces stillerie. a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered 445 Causing a moist Brain, by unceast supply Of Rheums still drawn to th' bodie's Stillary. 1624Heywood Captives ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV. 142 That stillary of all infectious sinnes.
2. A distillery.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 353 In it also the farm-buildings, together with the brewery and stillery. 1804T. Trotter Ess. Drunkenness i. 6 Abundance of corn, was again, for the sake of taxation, converted into poisonous spirits, by opening the stilleries. |