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To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] "She . . . posed him and sifted him." Bacon.

The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. [Prov. Eng.]

To separate into parts; to sift. [Obs.] Holland.

To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

To sift through a sarse. [Obs.]

Stones left after sifting. Smart.

ze. The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted. Atterbury.

een in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.

To sift; to bolt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

One who sifts or bolts. [Obs.]

tion; to hunt. Once more search with me. Shak. It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. Locke.

The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. The first remove above bran is shorts. Halliwell.

m perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread, Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy. Ayliffe.

The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world. Bp. Hall.

To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good. Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind. Dryden.