- Filter through - Percolate - See 3d Leech. - A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and
thus imbibes the alkali. - A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. - To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to
the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or
coffee. - To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out
alkali from ashes.
- Strain - Trickle (in) - 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. - To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing
it to pass through a filter. - To pass through a filter; to percolate. - Same as Philter.
- Soak through - To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a
liquor; to filter; to strain. - To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as,
water percolates through porous stone.
- enter by stealth - Enter unnoticed - Surreptitiously gain access - To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of
a substance; to filter into or through something. - To penetrate gradually; -- sometimes used
reflexively.
- To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or
percolation. - That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed
through the filter in the process of filtration.
- 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.