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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.

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Perforate 76% connected

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Infiltrate 76% connected

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

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Leach 76% connected

See 3d Leech.

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Percolate 76% connected

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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Kieselguhr 76% connected

Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.

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Strainer 76% connected

One who strains.

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Dribble 74% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Dribble 74% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Filtrate 74% connected

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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Filtrate 74% connected

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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Filtration 74% connected

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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Filtration 74% connected

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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Strain 74% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Strain 74% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Dribble 92% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Filtrate 92% connected

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Percolate 92% connected

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Permeate 92% connected

To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strain 92% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trickle 92% connected

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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