[mod.L., a. Gr. στάλαγμα, drop, drip, f. σταλακ-, σταλάσσειν: see STALACTIC a.]
1. A distilled liquor. rare–0.
1693. trans. 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.
