‖ stalagma
(stəˈlægmə)
[mod.L., a. Gr. στάλαγµα drop, drip, f. σταλακ-, σταλάσσειν: see stalactic a.]
1. A distilled liquor. rare—0.
| 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Stalagma, that which is Distilled from Stagma. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1855 Dunglison Med. Lex., Stalagma, stagma. |
2. = stalagmite 2.
| 1903 R. Bridges Poems Class. Prosody i. 358 Caves..abandon'd Ages since to the drift and the drip, the cementing accretions Whence we now separate his bones buried in the stalagma. |