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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.

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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