The absence of sulphurets, and the occurrence of carbonate of iron in connection with them, prove that, when they existed as soils, rain-water, and not sea-water, percolated them.

Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.

Perhaps a wish that the horse might lie down and die at this moment (no doubt he would be glad to!) percolated through the current of his thoughts.

ICED COFFEE WITH VANILLA Add to 6 cups cold boiled or percolated coffee 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup cream and Sugar to taste.

PERCOLATED COFFEE I Put 1 cup finely ground coffee in upper part of glass coffee pot, put 6 cups hot water in lower part.

PERCOLATED COFFEE II Put in upper part of percolator coffee pot 1 cup finely ground coffee.

Pour in 3 pints boiling water and percolate about 10 minutes.

Consequently, they began guessing at the drift of public opinion, as it percolated to them through the medium of their education and prejudices.

exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate^; egurgitate^; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out;

The permission itself percolated back to Vienna presently, and early next morning I took the Teschen express.

The clergy in those days possessed the bulk of knowledge, and had matters so continued the vacant pew would have less of a hold on people than it has to-day; but in some way knowledge escaped from the cloister and percolated through the other professions, so that to-day in England, out of a good-sized family, the pulpit generally has to take what is left after the army, navy, politics, law, and golf have had the pick.

Then gradually the seed blown over the surface of the spring from the weeds and grass near by will take root, and, in the course of a few years, a strong turf will be formed, through which the water may percolate in many places, though giving to the unsuspecting traveler no sign of its treacherous character.

There is but a small percentage of clay in the soil, but a good deal of lime, and five inches down is the hard rock; therefore this light, stony soil never holds the rain, but allows it to percolate rapidly through, even as a sieve.

What better receptacle for water could they have found than a top-dressing of half an inch of loam or clay, retaining as it does every drop of moisture that falls in the shape of dew or rain, instead of allowing it to percolate through like a sieve, as is the case with an ordinary sandy soil?

The only light we had was what percolated up through the cracks, and all that we could see of the exhibition was through them.

Setting aside 4 ounces of the filtered liquid for further experimenting, I packed the residue from the press into a conical glass percolator and exhausted with dilute alcohol, evaporating the percolate in a water-bath to two ounces, mixing with the 12 ounces of expressed juice and adding 2 ounces of alcohol.

"Tell me," he said, heavily, wadding his mind with cotton, for fear some lightness should percolate through it.

It must be mentioned that when the reservoir was filling, the water percolated through the masonry, giving the face wall the appearance of a huge filter, which at the time was attributed to the porous nature of the sandstone used in construction, but which more probably was due to the washing of the green mortar out of the joints.

For instance, I think of something that has no connection with it whatever; presently I am overcome by a feeling that something is missing, a great trouble seizes me, a fear as if I had forgotten something of great importance, not done a thing I ought to have done; and I find out that the thought of Aniela has percolated through every nook and cranny of the mind, and taken possession of it.

Of course a crowd collected outside the gates of the yarda crowd, for no known reason, always hovers for a day or two near the scene of a sudden death in Londontwo or three reporters percolated somehow into the engine-shed, and one even got to Azuma-zi; but the scientific expert cleared them out again, being himself an amateur journalist.

After a day or two it will percolate through to the varlet's intelligence that you are a desperate dog in urgent need of something, and he will bestir himself, and mayhap in a further two or three days' time he will wind a crank, pull some strings, and announce that you are "on," and you will find yourself in animated conversation with an inspector of cemeteries, a jam expert at the Base, or the Dalai Lama.

This one must percolate through a bed of ore.

PERCOLATE HOLDER.The accompanying cut illustrates an easily-constructed device for holding a jelly bag or percolate.

PERCOLATE HOLDER.The accompanying cut illustrates an easily-constructed device for holding a jelly bag or percolate.

If two liquids be separated from each other only by a skin or parchment, each will percolate through the membrane and diffuse into the other; the process is known as osmose, and is constantly illustrated in the animal and vegetable world.