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

Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

Flocculation :: Flocculation (n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

Dreg :: Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society..

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..

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..

Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Reside :: Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment..

Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium..

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

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..

Greaves :: Greaves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

Cone-in-cone :: Cone-in-cone (a.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks..

Decant :: Decant (v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine..

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

Illutation :: Illutation (n.) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath..

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

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