Searce
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /sɑːs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Searce is a noun meaning (obsolete, countable) A sieve; a strainer.
Meaning
(obsolete, countable) A sieve; a strainer.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.
Example Sentences
Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce [translating estamine]: whence are engendred all the vanities and errours wherewith the world is so full-fraught[…].
My next Difficulty was to make a Sieve, or Searſe, to dreſs my meal, and to part it from the Bran and the Huſk, without which I did not ſee it poſſible I could have any Bread. […] I had nothing like the neceſſary Things to make it with—I mean fine thin Canvas, or Stuff, to ſearſe the Meal through.
Word Forms
- searces
- searcing
- searced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sarse, temse, sieve, siue, scree, range.
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