The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decant \De*cant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Decanting.] [F. d['e]canter (cf. It. decantare), prop., to pour off from the edge of a vessel; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + OF. cant (It. canto) edge, border, end. See Cant an edge.] To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decant English)
Usage examples of "decanting".
One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room.
Hinted at the gravity of the so-called "trauma of decanting," and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.
And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort.
With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.
Blithe was the singing of the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked, and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the empty bottles!
Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottleĀan invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations.
Members of the Family had come from every corner of Europe to participate in the Decanting, traveling at night by carriage or train and stopping at country inns during the day.
I know Agenor wishes to make a dramatic presentation during the Decanting, but I refuse to be rushed and will continue to rely on my own judgments.
I had always aspired to participate in a Decanting, and now I could satisfy this yearning.
Miles was torn between anxiety to proceed and an intense desire to sit down and study the place and date stamps on all those IDs, real and fake, before decanting Gupta.
Behind it to left and right, set into the far wall, were the square glass sides of two spacious decanting tanks.
She took a couple of steps closer to the decanting tank and looked up into the wash of cool green light it cast down into the gloom.
Separation complete, the machine withdrew slightly, swivelled about and trundled back along the rows towards the empty decanting tank.
There was something hypnotic about the green light from the decanting tanks, and beneath my numbness, ideas were beginning to circle restlessly, snapping at each other like bottlebacks in a feeding spiral.
You'd better whistle up some muscle to drag this piece of shit up to one of the decanting salons.