Usually means: Boiling ingredients to extract flavors.
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  1. decoction: Merriam-Webster
  2. decoction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decoction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decoction: Vocabulary.com
  5. Decoction, decoction: Wordnik
  6. decoction: Wiktionary
  7. decoction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. decoction: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. decoction: Dictionary.com
  10. decoction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Decoction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Decoction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. decoction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. decoction: Rhymezone
  15. Decoction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. decoction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. decoction: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decoction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. decoction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decoction: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Decoction: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. decoction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. decoction: Natural Health glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. decoction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. decoction: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Decoction: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Decoction: Brew Monkey Glossary
  4. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decoction)

noun:  An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
noun:  The process of boiling something down in this way.

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