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Webster 1913 Edition

Faints

Faints

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Noun.
pl.
The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; – the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.
Ure.

Webster 1828 Edition

Faints

FAINTS

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Noun.
plu.
the gross fetid oil remaining after distillation, or a weak spirituous liquor that runs from the still in rectifying the low wines after the proof spirit is drawn off; also, the last runnings of all spirits distilled by the alembic.

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faints

faints

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Noun

faints

  1. plural of faint
  2. The impure spirit that comes over first (the strong faints) and last (the weak faints) in the distillation of whisky, much impregnated with fusel oil.
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