Category:Sieve

Sieve, n. Etym: [oe. sive, as. sife; akin to d. zeef, zift, ohg. sib, G. sieb. sq. root151a. 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.