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10 condened again by cold. Thus it is generally taken, but how more particularly, I hall afterward hew. Digetion, is a contracting, or maturation of crude things by an eaie, and gentle heat. Diolution, is the turning of bodies into a liquor by the addition of ome humidity. Dulcoration, or dulcification is either the wahing off the alt from any matter that was calcined therewith, with warm water, in which the alt is diolved, and the matter dulcified: or it is weetening of things with ugar or honey, or yrup. E. Elevation, is the riing of any matter in manner of fume, or vapour by vertue of heat. Evaporation, or Exhalation, is the vapouring away of any moiture. Exaltation, is when any matter doth by digetion attain to a greater purity. Expreion, is the extracting of any liquor by the hand, or by a prese. Extraction, is the drawing forth of an eence from a corporeall matter by ome fit liquor as pirit of wine, the feces remaining in the bottome. F. Fermentation, is when any thing is reolved into itelf, and is rarified, and ripened, whether it be done by any ferment added to it or by digetion only. Filtration, is the eparation of any liquid matter from it feces by making it run through a brown paper made like a tunnell, or a little bag of wollen cloth, or through hreds. Fixation, is the making of any volatile, pirituall body endure the fire, and not fly away, whether it be done by often reiterated ditillations, or ublimations, or by the adding of ome fixing thing to it. Fumigation, is the calcining of bodies by the fume of harp pirits whether vegetable or minerall, the bodies being laid over