SIEVED
Verb
sieved
past participle of sieve
Adjective
sieved
Passed through a sieve.
Anagrams
• devise, viséed
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition