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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..

Percolation :: Percolation (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it..

Rape :: Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tared :: Tared (a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates..

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

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

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

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..

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

Infiltered :: Infiltered (imp. & p. p.) of Infilte.

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

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..

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

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