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sift


sift is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] 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.

[2] To separate or part as if with a sieve. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden.

[3] To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. Hooker. Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. Milton. Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor. To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.


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