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Rubbish; refuse; dirt. [Obs.] All this mullok [was] in a sieve ythrowe. Chaucer.

powder so composed as to ignite by slight percussion; fulminating powder. -- Percussion sieve, Percussion table, a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.

A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds. [Eng.]

A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

A bolting sieve to sift meal. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

A riddle or sieve. [Prov. Eng.]

A riddle or sieve. [Obs.] Holland.

A fine sieve; a searce. [Obs.]

A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

A fine sieve. [Obs.]

A searce, or sieve. [Obs.] Holland.

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.

A sieve with fine meshes. [Prov. Eng.]

anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suctionpipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.

A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

A sieve. [Written also tems, and tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread, Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]

To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve. [Obs.] Harvey.