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Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Muddiness :: Muddiness (n.) The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream..

Decantation :: Decantation (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another..

Geosynclinal :: Geosynclinal (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal..

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..

Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

Feculent :: Feculent (a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

Laccolith :: Laccolith (n.) A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..

Sedimental :: Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine..

Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

Settling :: Settling (n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

Supernatation :: Supernatant (n.) The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet..

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

Sedimentary :: Sedimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.

Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..

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