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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of boiling in water, in order to extract the peculiar properties or virtues.
  2. n. The liquor in which an animal or a vegetable substance has been boiled; water impregnated by boiling with the properties of such a substance: as, a decoction of Peruvian bark.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
  2. n. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling

Etymologies

  1. From Old French décoction, from Latin decoctio, form of decoquō ("I boil down"), from de- + coquō. (Wiktionary)

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  • bilby At last, something useful to do with dogs. Jan 31, 2013

  • ruzuzu "The liquor in which an animal or a vegetable substance has been boiled; water impregnated by boiling with the properties of such a substance: as, a decoction of Peruvian bark."

    --CD&C Jan 31, 2013

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