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Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Vapory :: Vapory (a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.

Spongilla :: Spongiform (a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

Adarce :: Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy..

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster..

Gurglet :: Gurglet (n.) A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

Foraminous :: Foraminous (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

Porously :: Porously (adv.) In a porous manner.

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Thecasporous :: Thecasporous (a.) Having the spores in thecae, or cases..

Pory :: Pory (a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden..

Chatty :: Chatty (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc..

Kieselguhr :: Kieselguhr (n.) Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite..

Porosity :: Porosity (n.) The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

Transparent :: Transparent (a.) Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil..

Caramel :: Caramel (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc..

Oecoid :: Oecoid (n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out..

Rarefy :: Rarefy (v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.

Saporous :: Saporous (a.) Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

Acrosporous :: Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.

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