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

Searce :: Searce (v. t.) To sift; to bolt.

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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..

Range :: Range (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.

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

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..

Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy..

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

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

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

Randan :: Randan (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.

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

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