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

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..

Sedimental :: Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.

Sedimentation :: Sedimentation (n.) The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed..

Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..

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

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

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

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

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

Residence :: Residence (n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment..

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..

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..

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

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..

Urrhodin :: Urrhodin (n.) Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin..

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

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..

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

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..

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