† stilleryn.
Obsolete.
1. ? A still. In quots. figurative.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun]
stillatoryc1386
distillatorya1475
still1562
stillery1595
distil1822
distiller1885
1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. B4v Thus should I be her notes, before they be; While in her blood they sitte with fierye wings Not vapord in her voyces stillerie.
a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 445 Causing a moist Brain, by unceast supply Of Rheums still drawn to th' bodie's Stillary.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. ii. 44 That stillary off all inffectious sinnes.
2. A distillery.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > distillery
still-house1558
stillatory?1600
foundry1670
distil-house1682
distillery1759
stillery1762
still1845
outstill1884
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 353 In it also the farm-buildings, together with the brewery and stillery.
1804 T. Trotter Ess. Drunkenness i. 6 Abundance of corn, was again, for the sake of taxation, converted into poisonous spirits, by opening the stilleries.
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