lixivium

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Of the remainder of the lixivium, which was more than a pint, I evaporated almost all to crystallize in a cellar.

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  1. Water impregnated with alkaline salts extracted from wood-ashes; lye: sometimes applied to other extracts. I have found wonderfull benefit in bathing my head with a decoction of some hot and aromaticall herbs, in a lixivium made of the ashes of vine-branches. Evelyn, To Doctor Beale.

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  1. from Latin lixivium, also lixivia, lye, neuter and feminine respectively of lixivius, made into lye, from lix, ashes, lye.
 

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