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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..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) One who sifts flour or meal.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Garbel :: Garbel (v. t.) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken..

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..

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

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..

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..

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.

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

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

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..

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