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Webster 1828 Edition


Filtering

FIL'TERING

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ppr.
Straining; defecating.

Definition 2024


filtering

filtering

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Verb

filtering

  1. present participle of filter

Noun

filtering (plural filterings)

  1. Something that passes through a filter.
    • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
      the filterings from the subsoils
    • 2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
      Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight []

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