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单词 faints
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faintsn.

/feɪnts/
Forms: Also 1800s feints.
Etymology: plural of faint n.
The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the process of distillation. Also attributive.
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1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 295 Is it not a great Fault among Distillers, to allow any of the Faints to run among their pure Goods?
1807 5th Rep. Comm. Fees in Public Offices Irel. App. 12. 191 in Parl. Papers 1806–7 VI. 139 The latter part of this running being weak is called Feints.
1883 J. Gardner Brewer, Distiller etc. v. 146 The remaining weak spirit that distils over, called faints, is caught separately.
attributive.1880 Act 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24 Sched. 1 A low wines and feints charger must be connected with the still.1880 Act 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24 §3 Spirits conveyed into a feints receiver.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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