Word Meanings - FILTRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.
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- PERCOLATE
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - EXERT
out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - TIGHTENER
That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley. - 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. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - LIXIVIATE
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - STRAINED
1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. - DEPURATE
Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - EXERTION
The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion - FILTER
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 - STRETCH
OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in - STRAINT
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser. - TIGHTEN
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - INFILTRATE
To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison. - INFILTER
To filter or sift in. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - REPURIFY
To purify again. - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond.