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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sift \Sift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sifted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Sifting}.] [AS. siftan from sife sieve. [root]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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sifting
n : the act of winnowing [syn: {winnow}, {winnowing}]
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