Word Meanings - PERCOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERCOLATE)

• Distil
• Drop
• emanate
• drip
• percolate
• Drain Draw
• strain
• drop
• exhaust
• empty
• dry
• Drip
• ooze
• Ooze
• distil
• fall
• decline
• descend
• faint
• droop
• Filter
• Strain
• refine
• exude
• leak
• depurate
• defecate
• clarify

Related words: (words related to PERCOLATE)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• INFILTER
  To filter or sift in.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.