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- English Word Sift Definition 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.
- English Word Sift Definition To separate or part as if with a sieve.
- English Word Sift Definition To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
- English Word Sifted Definition of Sift
- English Word Sifter Definition One who, or that which, sifts.
- English Word Sifter Definition 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.
- English Word Sifting Definition of Sift
- English Word Sig Definition Urine.
- English Word Sigaultian Definition Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.
- English Word Sigger Definition Same as
- English Word Sigh Definition 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.
- English Word Sigh Definition Hence, to lament; to grieve.
- English Word Sigh Definition To make a sound like sighing.
- English Word Sigh Definition To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
- English Word Sigh Definition To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- English Word Sigh Definition To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
- English Word Sigh Definition A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
- English Word Sigh Definition Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
- English Word Sigh-born Definition Sorrowful; mournful.
- English Word Sighed Definition of Sigh
- English Word Sigher Definition One who sighs.
- English Word Sighing Definition of Sigh
- English Word Sighing Definition Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.
- English Word Sight Definition The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
- English Word Sight Definition The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
- English Word Sight Definition 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.
- English Word Sight Definition A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
- English Word Sight Definition The instrument of seeing; the eye.
- English Word Sight Definition Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
- English Word Sight Definition Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.