PER'COLATE, verb transitive [Latin percolo; per and colo, to strain.] To strain through; to cause to pass through small interstices, as a liquor; to filter. PER'COLATE, verb intransitive To pass through small interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through a porous stone.
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