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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..

Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To filter.

Clay :: Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar..

Physeter :: Physeter (n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Filter :: Filter (n.) Same as Philter.

Filtering :: Filtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filte.

Percolate :: Percolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain..

Inhaler :: Inhaler (n.) A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust, etc.; also, the respiratory apparatus for divers..

Percolate :: Percolate (v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone..

Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..

Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..

Infilter :: Infilter (v. t. & i.) To filter or sift in.

Infiltering :: Infiltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infilte.

Filtrate :: Filtrate (v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation..

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Filtrate :: Filtrate (n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil..

Colation :: Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

Percolator :: Percolator (n.) One who, or that which, filters..

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