30 collocations for dilute

Add a little flour and seasoning to the butter, and then a cupful boiling water, stock, or diluted "Extract," and allow to simmer a little longer.

It is not desireable to dilute the gastric juice, nor to chill the stomach with large amount of cold liquid.

The fluoric acid, disengaged in the gaseous state, combines with the water that diluted the sulphuric acid, and forms liquid fluoric acid, by which the glass is corroded.

His grandfather had married a French lady, and although this union had not sensibly diluted the Westcote blood, Endymion would refer to it to palliate a youthful taste for playing the fiddle.

A certain amount of white or yellow light is no doubt reflected from the coarser dust in the lower atmosphere, and slightly dilutes the blue and renders it not quite so deep and pure as it otherwise would be.

This I ascribe to the tea, not as possessing any medicinal qualities, but as tempting them to drink more water, to dilute their salt food more copiously, and, perhaps, to forbear punch, or other strong liquors.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

She even ventured to abstract his brandy bottle and dilute its contents.

God knows how to dilute his elixirs for the soul.

He sought to generalize the conversation, diluting this accumulated emotion by spreading it.

[500] A strong alcoholic drink commonly made by diluting low-grade alcohol with water and flavouring it.

People will scarcely credit it, but times like these don't dilute the tenacity or light-heartedness of our soldiers.

But unless distilled water can be procured, it is better not to dilute the fruit.

Do you well apprehend the idea?" While the Alsatian diluted his glass of Aqua fortis, shook into it an infusion of bitters, and tossed off the bumper with apparent relish, I had time to look around the strange apartment.

The same quantity of wine diluted intoxicates sooner than the same quantity drank in the same time without dilution; the wine being applied to a larger surface of the stomach, acts with proportionably greater quicknessthough wine diluted sooner intoxicates, its effects are sooner over.

Eggs which need to be washed before breaking should always be wiped perfectly dry, that no water may become mingled with the egg, as the water may dilute the albumen sufficiently to prevent the white from becoming firm and stiff when beaten.

It is best to precipitate the mucin by acetic acid before making experiments; and to dilute the clear liquid with a little distilled water.

A very good way is to have a little gravy prepared by diluting half a teaspoonful "Marmite" or a teaspoonful "Carnos" in a half teacup boiling water.

They merely dilute its virtues, without adding any that are worth the exchange.

The drill struck me as middling, which may be owing to the fact that the company has lately increased to about two hundred members, thus diluting the old organization with a large number of new recruits.

The Bishop of London of the day, an active and open-hearted man, had been for years engaged in diluting the high orthodoxy of the Church by the introduction of the Evangelical body into places of influence and trust.

The gases are mixed and the nitrogen simply dilutes the oxygen, as it were.

No matter how badly we feel for him I think it is up to us not to try to dilute his penitence and to leave a generous share of the blame where he puts it himselfon his own shoulders.

Meyerbeer befriended them with letters of introduction and much encouragement, on the receipt of which the cautious couple diluted their few remaining pence in champagne.

I observed that these bottles had labels about their necks, and that these labels were inscribed "Kirschenwässer." The considerate kindness of the Angel mollified me in no little measure; and, aided by the water with which he diluted my port more than once, I at length regained sufficient temper to listen to his very extraordinary discourse.

30 collocations for  dilute