Sift

Sift (sift)
v. t.	(?)
Sift
[imp. ** p. p.* Sifted] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Sifting.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. &radic]151a. See Sieve.]

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.

To separate or part as if with a sieve.

When yellow sands are sifted from below,
The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden.

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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