SIEVING

Verb

sieving

present participle of sieve

Noun

sieving (plural sievings)

The act of passing something through a sieve.

Material that has passed through a sieve.

Anagrams

• gives in, viseing, viséing

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