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

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

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

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

Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

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

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

Bran :: Bran (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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