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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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Size :: Size (v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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