| Bolting 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt. 2. (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside. 3. (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal. 4. (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. Thesaurus Entries allegorization, bolting, colature, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, destructive distillation, distillation, easing, editing, edulcoration, elucidation, elution, elutriation, emendation, enlightenment, essentialization, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, expediting, expedition, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, extraction, facilitation, filtering, filtration, hastening, illumination, illustration, leaching, light, lixiviation, percolation, purification, quickening, rationale, reason, refinement, riddling, screening, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, simplifying, smoothing, solution, speeding, spiritualization, straining, streamlining, sublimation, unlocking, winnowing |