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Puree :: Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated..

Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..

Searce :: Searce (n.) A fine sieve.

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..

Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..

Coscinomancy :: Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

Cribriform :: Cribriform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress..

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter..

Jig :: "Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n..

Knockings :: Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore..

Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

Griddle :: Griddle (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners..

Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..

Cribble :: Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.

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