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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..

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

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..

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

Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat..

Sassanage :: Sassanage (n.) Stones left after sifting.

Sifted :: Sifted (imp. & p. p.) of Sif.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Fell :: Fell (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting..

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

Cribration :: Cribration (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

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