Index of English words, starting with "si"

(1) - Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

(1) - Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.
(2) - Sieve (n.) 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.

(1) - Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
(2) - Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.
(3) - Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

(1) - Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.
(2) - Sifter (n.) One who, or that which, sifts.