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Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Faeces :: Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation..

Sedimental :: Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.

Residence :: Residence (n.) That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum..

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

Feces :: Feces (n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

Urrhodin :: Urrhodin (n.) Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin..

Laccolith :: Laccolith (n.) A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Turbid :: Turbid (a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine..

Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..

Settling :: Settling (n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

Geosynclinal :: Geosynclinal (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal..

Residence :: Residence (n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment..

Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..

Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..

Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..

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