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

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

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..

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

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

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

Infiltrate :: Infiltrate (v. i.) To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

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..

Filter :: Filter (v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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