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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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good..

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

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

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