Percolate: alternatives and connections

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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

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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 matte…

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

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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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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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To cover again.

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To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

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of Spread

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

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

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

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

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The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

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The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

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The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered dr…

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The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered dr…

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One who, or that which, filters.

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One who, or that which, filters.

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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 matte…

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

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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 matte…

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See 3d Leech.

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To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

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

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