·add. ·- A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.
·noun A centrifugal machine. II. Centrifugal ·adj Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. ...
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·noun ·same·as <<Philter>>. II. Filter ·vi To pass through a filter; to <<Percolate>>. III. Filter...
A strainer to free water from its impurities, usually termed by seamen drip-stone (which see). ...
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