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Webster 1913 Edition

Sieve

Sieve

,
Noun.
[OE.
sive
, AS.
sife
; akin to D.
zeef
,
zift
, OHG.
sib
, G.
sieb
. √151a. Cf.
Sift
.]
1.
A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
“In a sieve thrown and sifted.”
Chaucer.
2.
A kind of coarse basket.
Simmonds.
Sieve cells
(Bot.)
,
cribriform cells. See under
Cribriform
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sieve

SIEVE

,
Noun.
siv.
An utensil for separating flour from bran, or the fine part of any pulverized or fine substance from the coarse, by the hand; as a fine sieve; a coarse sieve. It consists of a hoop with a hair bottom, and performs in the family the service of a bolter in a mill.

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