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  • verb Present participle of decoct.

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Examples

  • *If your child just cannot tolerate the brief sting of the cayenne, you may prepare our own version of this formula without this herb by purchasing the dried, cut herbs separately and decocting the bayberry bark and goldenseal root together, steeping the raspberry leaf and eyebright together see Appendix A for directions for preparing the teas, then combining the two liquids to make the eyedrops.

    Gentle Healing for Baby and Child Andrea Candee 2000

  • German malts continue to be modified for decocting.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • German malts continue to be modified for decocting.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • Better still, try decocting a European lager malt.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • Better still, try decocting a European lager malt.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • For drying or for decocting the leaves are cut when the flowers appear.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • An old crone was busy decocting simples in a large olla over the fire.

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • But we must not look upon the foregoing words as a facile prescription for decocting a feeling which may then be ladled out to a complacent audience in quantities to suit the need of the moment.

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • That morning Sir Charles had ridden to Green Spring with her father; Mistress Lettice was in the still room decocting a face wash from rose leaves, dew and honey; young

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • And then he proceeded with circumspection and dignity to demonstrate the process of decocting that mysterious beverage.

    The Fifth String 1902

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