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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..

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

Searcer :: Searcer (n.) One who sifts or bolts.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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