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n. Plural form of sieve.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sieve.

An obsolete form of cives. See cive.

"But above all, those judicious collectors of bright parts, and flowers, and observandas are to be nicely dwelt on by some called the sieves and boulters of learning, though it is left undetermined whether they dealt in pearls or meal, and consequently whether we are more to value that which passed through or what stayed behind."

sieved    sieves    sieving   

pick out    select    take    choose    analyze    canvass    examine    canvas    study    analyse   

strainer    drum-sieve    sieve and shears    sieve of eratosthenes   

have a memory like a sieve    have a mind like a sieve   

tense    search    cribble    screen    bolter    colander    drum    grate    grating    riddle   

Viv    forgive    give    liv    live    misgive    outlive    relive   

colander    strainer    pail