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Leaching   /lˈitʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Leach  v. t.  (past & past part. leached; pres. part. leaching)  
1.
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
2.
To dissolve out; often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.


Leach  v. i.  To part with soluble constituents by percolation.





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"Leaching" Quotes from Famous Books



... bruise, and place in a woollen (pointed) bag, and leach good common whiskey over them twice, having the barrel up so as to hang the bag under the faucet and draw slowly over them; this is for a barrel. Add 10 or 12 drops of aqua ammonia to each barrel, after leaching through the peaches; with age this is nearly, if not quite, equal to whiskey ...
— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young
... the attention, or too difficult for the execution of others, the author of the present publication hits ventured to attempt. A conviction of the necessity of leaching some system of action, and the abundant success of the present system in one of the most respectable academies near London, has determined him to publish it, for the use of such seminaries as make English pronunciation a part of ...
— The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant • John Hamilton Moore
... comparatively level country are seen in Figs. 56 and 57. By this preliminary surface fitting of the fields these people have reduced to the lowest possible limit the waste of soil fertility by erosion and surface leaching. At the same time they are able to retain upon the field, uniformly distributed over it, the largest part of the rainfall practicable, and to compel a much larger proportion of the necessary run off to leave by under-drainage than would be possible ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King


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