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Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.

Infilter :: Infilter (v. t. & i.) To filter or sift in.

Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..

Short :: Short (n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Sifter :: Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak..

Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Garble :: Garble (v. t.) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices..

Ree :: Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

Try :: Try (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good..

Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime..

Size :: Size (v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) One who sifts flour or meal.

Discusser :: Discusser (n.) One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out..

Cribble :: Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.

Screen :: Screen (v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift..

Sarse :: Sarse (v. t.) To sift through a sarse.

Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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