Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as phlegm, 2.
  • noun In making whisky or other spirits, the vinasse or residue left in the still after the alcohol has been practically removed as vapor.

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Examples

  • It's a medieval medical term meaning the mixture of the four basic fluids "phlegma" (=slime), "cholera" (=yellow gall), blood and "melancholera" (=black gall).

    Diamonds are for Helmets a stitch in time 2009

  • The description deserves to be quoted in the original: — “Fistulæ in hunc finem ex argillâ factæ orificio posteriori dictam herbam probe exiccatam, ita ut in pulverem facile redigi possit, immittunt, et igne admoto accendunt, unde fumus ab anteriori parte ore attrahitur, qui per nares rursum, tamquam per infurnibulum exit, et phlegma ac capitis defluxiones magnâ copiâ secum educit.”

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

  • Inquit & poftea Diofcoridis automate, folia huius plantse laxat phlegma & co - lcram; & maxime quandqadmifcen tureis duplum ejus ex Abfinthio.

    Velez ab Arciniega... De simplicium medicamentorum collectione, electione ... Francisco Vélez de Arciniega 1593

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