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

whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.

or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

ce by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

A coarse sieve or screen.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

veral crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.

A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [Written also deluing.]

Like a sieve; cribriform.

A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.

A grain sieve. [Scot.] Æolian harp. See under Æolian. Harp seal (Zoöl.), an arctic seal (Phoca Groenlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp she…

Incapable of holding or containing. [Obs.] This captious and intenible sieve. Shak.

To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.

jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.

The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water. Jigging machine. (a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter i…

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.