单词 | sifted |
释义 | siftedadj. That has been passed through a sieve. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [adjective] > sifted ybontydc1430 sifted1485 well-sifted1526 riddled1600 screened1665 sieved1971 1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 243 vij stryke of syfted lyme. 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 154 Put fine sifted earth, either into an old basket, or deepe earthen pan. 1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 353 The plowed, tilled, or sifted feilds. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 298 A Composition made of slacked sifted Lime and Linseed Oil. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/2 A genteel drive up to his door, With sifted gravel neatly laid. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 8 A sifted sample..of such fineness that each particle consists of one mineral species only. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1485 |
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