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SIFT, v.t.

1. To separate by a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

2. To separate; to part.

3. To examine minutely or critically; to scrutinize. Let the principles of the party be thoroughly sifted. We have sifted your objections.
1913 Definition
Sift (sift)
v. t.(?)
Sift
[imp. *** p. p. Sifted] p. pr. *** vb. n. Sifting.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. &radic]151a. See Sieve.]
  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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