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

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..

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..

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

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..

Sifter :: Sifter (n.) One who, or that which, sifts..

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..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means..

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..

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

Searcer :: Searcer (n.) One who sifts or bolts.

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

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

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good..

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal..

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

Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure..

Sifting :: Sifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sif.

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

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

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