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winnow(dictionary)

winnow(2) (iou) and NFL (iou)


winnow(2) (iou)



winnow verb.
[Old English windwian, from wind WIND noun1.]
verb trans. & intrans. Expose (grain etc.) to the wind or to a current of air so that unwanted lighter particles of chaff etc. are separated or blown away; clear of waste material in this way. OE.
E. Forbes The tea is..winnowed and sifted, so as to free it from impurities.
b. fig. Subject to a process which separates the various parts or components, esp. the good from the bad; clear of worthless or inferior elements. LME.
G. Macdonald Sorrow is not a part of life..but a wind blowing throughout it, to winnow and cleanse it.
verb trans.
a. Separate or drive off (lighter or unwanted particles) by exposing to the wind or a current of air; fig. separate (the worthless part from the valuable); get rid of, clear away, eliminate (something undesirable). OE.
b. Separate (the valuable part from the worthless); extract, select, or obtain (something desirable) by such separation (now usu. foll. by out). E17.
Sir W. Scott Winnowing out the few grains of truth..contained in this mass of empty Fiction.
verb trans. & intrans. Move (something) as if in the process of winnowing; beat, fan, (the air), flap (the wings), wave (the fins). L16.
R. Burns Winnowing blythe her dewy wings In morning's rosy eye.
poet.
a. verb trans. Waft, diffuse; fan with a breeze. M18.
b. verb intrans. Of the air etc.: blow fitfully or in gusts. L18.
Comb.: winnow-cloth, winnow-sheet (long obsolete exc. dial.) a large sheet of cloth used in winnowing grain.
winnower noun LME.

NFL (iou)



NFL abbreviation.US.
National Football League.