Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete spelling of sieve.
  • noun A dialectal variant of scythe.

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Examples

  • This com­pany Mas­sive is sell­ing videogame ad-space in a very tra­di­tional way.

    Supernova: Virtual Wooorlds! « Snarkmarket 2005

  • Are you paying attention at all? of ⋅ fen ⋅ sive    

    Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010

  • For the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who had so impressed Einstein, God and nature were as one deus sive natura, and the practice of doing math was tantamount to a quest for the divine.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • D ü sseldorf Art "Ferdinand Kriwet" offers the first com pre hen sive solo exhibition of work by the German media-art pioneer, musician and audio-book author.

    What's on Around Europe 2011

  • Et hoc propter apaedeusiam, idest ineruditionem sive indisciplinationem.

    June 18th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Cover and reduce to a simmer for 35 minutes. fter 35 minutes, taste to see if done -- when it is cooked to desired chewiness, drain the rice in the sive and replace in the pot.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Laura 2009

  • Are you paying attention at all? of ⋅ fen ⋅ sive    

    Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010

  • Cover and reduce to a simmer for 35 minutes. fter 35 minutes, taste to see if done -- when it is cooked to desired chewiness, drain the rice in the sive and replace in the pot.

    Black Rice "Paella" Laura 2009

  • Bach's orchestral suites are based on dances of the time, and PBO's rhythmic thrust and expres sive playing had many in the audience bobbing in their seats.

    Restoring Bach Brett Campbell 2010

  • Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

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