Leach

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid.
  • v. To empty; drain: "a world leached of pleasure, voided of meaning” ( Marilynne Robinson).
  • verb-intransitive. To be dissolved or passed out by a percolating liquid.
  • n. The act or process of leaching.
  • n. A porous, perforated, or sievelike vessel that holds material to be leached.
  • n. The substance through which a liquid is leached.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  • n. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  • n. Alternative spelling of leech.
  • v. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See 3d leech.
  • n. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  • n. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  • v. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid.
  • v. To dissolve out; -- often used with out.
  • verb-intransitive. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
  • n. See leech, a physician.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See leech.
  • To wash or drain by percolation of water; treat by downward drainage: as, to make lye by leaching ashes (the most familiar use of the word); the rains leach a gravelly soil.
  • To remove by percolation; drain away: as, to leach the alkali from wood-ashes.
  • n. A separation of lye, or alkali in solution, as from wood-ashes, by percolation of water.
  • n. The material used for leaching, as wood-ashes.—3. A deep tub with a spigot inserted in the bottom, used in making potash. It holds from 6 to 8 bushels of wood-ashes.
  • n. See leech.
  • n. A dish, of various kinds, served up in slices. It was sometimes a jelly flavored with spices.
  • To cut into slices; slice.
  • n. Same as latch.
  • n. Same as leash.
  • To extract metal from (an ore) by subjecting it to chemical reagents which take the metal into solution.
  • n. A tank in which hot water is passed through ground bark to obtain tannin. Also latch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
  • v. permeate or penetrate gradually
  • n. the process of leaching
  • v. remove substances from by a percolating liquid
  • Verb Form
    leached    leaches    leaching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away    trickle    dribble    filter    natural process    action    activity   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    leech   
    Form
    leached    leaching   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beach    Peach    Teach    beach    beech    beseech    bleach    breach    breech    creach