Care should be taken to make them watertight, otherwise the foul matter may percolate through the ground, and is likely to contaminate the water supply.
For if the subsoil be damp, moisture will rise; if it be porous, offensive matter may percolate through.
These wateringspercolate through the malt on the mash-tun bottom, and extract as much of the saccharine matter as may be sufficient for the brewing.
Whenever a shaft is opened, means must be provided to extract the rubbish which continually tends to accumulate at its bottom, as well as the waters which maypercolate down into it; as also to facilitate the descent and ascent of the workmen.
The white spots were produced by a solution of chlorine, made to percolate down through the Turkey red cotton cloth, in certain points, defined and circumscribed by the pressure of hollow lead types in plates, in a hydraulic press.
The Professor looked with kindly sympathy over his audience as he allowed the yellow mixture to percolate slowly through his fingers back into the box again.
By the expression "mathematical figure of the earth" we mean the surface of the sea produced in imagination so as to percolate the continents.
Blake put down the papers, lighted a cigar, sat back, and let the truth of what he had read percolate into his actual consciousness.
If the quantity be very great at times, a part of it would be likely to flow across the top of an under-drain, from not having time to percolate downward into it.
Then there is the other extreme of compact clay, through which water seems scarcely to percolate at all.
Thus it is that, if the blood-serum has similarly to percolate through the kidneys, the whole of the blood must come to them, and not merely one part of it.
One particular memory began to percolate within him and boil over his rim.
How the male had caused memories of abuse, desire for love from the former abuser, and a whole hot stream of perverse fantasies to percolate through cracks in the surface veneer of consciousness he did not know.
The Lundé forms a marsh on one side, and the Luapula lets water percolate through sand and mud, and so does the Robukwé, which makes the path often knee deep.
To extract these it is boiled, then peeled, and new water supplied: after a second and third boiling it is pounded, and the meal taken to the river and the water allowed to percolate through it several times.
The ashes are those from which lye has been made by letting water percolate through them, for other ashes which are fatty would have to be burnt again in order to make them less fat.
Even two or three waters may be made to percolate through the same earth and become full of saltpetre, but the solutions thus obtained must not be mixed together unless all have the same taste, which rarely or never happens.
He says: Formerly small bags of baize were used to percolate coffee.
Let the water percolate over the grounds for five or ten minutes depending upon the intensity of the heat and the flavor desired.
Fresh boiling water is then poured through the coffee and allowed to percolate into the lower part of the pot.
The other was to percolate a similar quantity to get the needed caffeol.
It is then to be percolated with water, the first part of the percolate being returned as fast as it runs through.
After maceration, with occasional stirring, for twenty-four hours, place the bark in a displacement apparatus, and percolate with the diluted hydrochloric acid until the solution which drops through is nearly destitute of bitter taste.
After two hours more add more spirit, and let itpercolate slowly until 1 pint of tincture has been collected.
Introduce the senega into a percolator and pour on the proof spirit; when finished, evaporate the percolate by a water bath at 160 deg.
Water sufficient Percolate roots and bark with diluted alcohol, add syrup, then iodide of potassa.
Reduce the six first named ingredients to Number Forty powder, add boiling water enough to cover, let stand till cold, and then percolate with water until two and one-half gallons of liquid are obtained.
Pulverize and percolate with the following mixture: Alcohol 20 ozs.
To the percolate add: Cream of tartar 45 grains, oil of peppermint 1½ drachms.
The dry residue is exhausted with chloroform in a displacement apparatus, and the chloroform recovered from the percolate by distillation.
Such was the portentous import of this message that it did not percolate at all.
Five minutes, under ordinary circumstances, were wont to elapse ere an item of private news couldpercolate out of the post office and become public property.
Besides food, it gives us welcome shade at this season; the leaves fall off in winter and allow the sunlight to percolate into our rooms.
In Cuba, General Wood began the work of reconstruction at Havana with a central government and the best men he could get hold of, and acted through them, letting his plans and purposes percolate downward to the masses of the people.
In order to have a good road it is just as necessary that water should not be allowed to attack the substructure from below as that it should not be permitted to percolate through it from above.
The earth should then be excavated to the depth to which material is to be spread on and the foundation properly shaped and sloped each way from the center so as to discharge any water which may percolate through.
By ways of His own, Christ can reach such hearts, as the river of the water of life may percolate through underground channels to many a tree which grows far from its banks.
Go down into Morecambe Bay when the tide is making; and, as the water is beginning to percolate through the sand, try to make an impression with a stick upon the tremulous jelly.