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Decantation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of decanting the supernatant liquid from a solid sediment

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of pouring liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees

Word Usage

"-- The purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, and called decantation, 145."

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transfusion

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sedimentation