Crossword clues for winnowed
winnowed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winnow \Win"now\ (w[i^]n"n[-o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winnowed (w[i^]n"n[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Winnowing.] [OE. windewen, winewen, AS. windwian; akin to Goth. winpjan (in comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. [root]13
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See Wind moving air, and cf. Fan., n., Ventilate.] 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor.
--Ruth. iii. -
2. To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.
Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind.
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To beat with wings, or as with wings.[Poetic]
Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: winnow)
Usage examples of "winnowed".
Snow winnowed down like Crosshatch in scratchboard through the weathered slats of the corncrib, while seconds fled, closing the interval left before midnight.
Elaira shivered in revulsion as a thousand hapless lives were encountered and winnowed aside like the toss of so much dry chaff.
The discorporate mage winnowed his way to the floor through a gloom mazed in smoke, now steeped in growing blue by the east-facing casements.
Numerous as the sins of the damned, they rolled on in a burst of winnowed chaff, to scatter across the stone floor.
Notes winnowed free like leaves ripped on storm winds, blended into cascades that transfixed the heart with regret.
His jewels spat indigo sparks in the gloom, and candles winnowed by spurts of disturbed air threw wavering, ominous shadows.
The illusion of shadows that once masked their shapes had winnowed away to reveal the cunning trap beneath.
All in whose pulses ran Blood that is his at last, From the first stooping man Far in the winnowed past.
How should they know the wind of a new beauty Sweeping my soul had winnowed it with song?
Jhanuud-tir-yed emerged from a conference that had been winnowed down to only the most important figures present.
To mage-sight, the creatures appeared as a mad gyre of sparks, winnowed and whirled by the insatiable hungers that drove them.
Only then could the inbound wraiths be reeled in and contained, each spirit laboriously winnowed separate and Named, then restored to its shattered identity.
Drowning in density, her mind broke away, whirled and winnowed like a spark sucked up a vast flue.
Memory and flesh, their corpses were winnowed to carbon and ash, lost before they could draw breath and scream.
Though Elaira kept her shielded presence well grounded, the buffeting journey left her winnowed like chaff threshed in the wake of a squall line.