percolate

percolate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
  2. 2.To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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