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Sifted
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Sifting
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Sift
() 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.
Sift
() To separate or part as if with a sieve.
Sift
() To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifter
() One who, or that which, sifts.
Sifter
() Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.
Sig
() Urine.
Sigaultian
() Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.
Sigger
() Same as
Sighed
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Sighing
() of Sigh
Sigh
() To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
Sigh
() Hence, to lament; to grieve.
Sigh
() To make a sound like sighing.
Sigh
() To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
Sigh
() To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Sigh
() To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
Sigh
() A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
Sigh
() Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
Sigh-born
() Sorrowful; mournful.
Sigher
() One who sighs.
Sighing
() Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.
Sight
() The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
Sight
() The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
Sight
() The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
Sight
() A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
Sight
() The instrument of seeing; the eye.
Sight
() Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
Sight
() Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
Sight
() A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
Sight
() A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
Sight
() In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
Sight
() A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
Sighted
() of Sight
Sighting
() of Sight
Sight
() To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
Sight
() To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
Sight
() To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
Sight
() To take aim by a sight.
Sighted
() Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
Sightful
() Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.
Sightfulness
() The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
Sight-hole
() A hole for looking through; a peephole.
Sighting
() a. & n. from Sight, v. t.
Sightless
() Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
Sightless
() That can not be seen; invisible.
Sightless
() Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.
Sightliness
() The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
Sightly
() Pleasing to the sight; comely.