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▪ I. searce, n. ? Obs.|sɜːs|
Forms: [? 4 sace], 5 saarce, sars, sarsse, sarche, 5–7 sarce, 6 cearse, 6–8 serce, searse, 7 sarse, serse, 7–8 sierce, 7–9 search, 5–9 searce.
[ME. saarce, a. (with unexplained insertion of r) OF. saas (mod.F. sas) = Pr. sedas, Sp. cedazo, It. staccio (Neapolitan setaccio):—pop.L. *sætāceus (pannus), lit. (cloth) made of bristles, f. L. sæta bristle.]
A sieve or strainer. (In the first quot. the word may be AF.)
[1329–30Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 17, 1 sace, 4d.] c1440Promp. Parv. 441/2 Saarce, instrument. 1459Inv. Sir J. Fastolf's Goods in Paston Lett. I. 490 Item,..j. sars of brasse. Item,..j. sarche of tre. 1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invent. iii. i. 65 Siues and sarces of heare. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 10 The couer..Galen likeneth to a searse, as though it were full of holes. 1594Good Huswife's Handmaide 52 When it [the flour] is baken, it will be full of clods, and therefore ye must searse it through a search. 1624Quarles Job Militant med. iv. 17 My Mem'ry's like a Searce of Lawne (alas) It Keepes things grosse, and lets the purer passe. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. xii. 66 Sift it through a fine Sieve, or a Search. 1674Ray Coll. Words, Prepar. Tin 122 The fine [tin] is lewed in a fine sierce. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 124 My next Difficulty was to make a Sieve, or Search, to dress my Meal. 1780Mackenzie Mirror No. 93 §9 His brain, poor man! was like a gauze searce, it admitted nothing of any magnitude. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 262 Adding the fish-glue dissolved in a great deal of water, and passed through a searce [printed searee]. 1844N. Paterson Manse Garden 147 Put all the earth through a search or riddle, of which the wires are one inch apart.
fig.1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 296 Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 279 Whereas other Orders of Monks and Fryers were after their first institution sifted (as I may say) thorough many other searches. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. verse 18. i. xvii. 330 His Mediation is the fine searse through which our prayers are boulted.
b. Comb., as † searce-net; † searce-wise adv.
1526Grete Herball ccccxxxv. (1529) Z iij, Take veray small powdre therof and passe it through a sarcenet. 1601Holland Pliny xi. xxiv. I. 323 The long yarne in her web wrought serce-wise.
▪ II. searce, v. ? Obs.|sɜːs|
Forms: 5 saarce, sarge, serge, (sayeres ?), 5–6 sarse, 5–7 sarce, 6 searsse, cerse, cerce, serche, 6–7 serse, serce, seirce, 6–8 sierse, 7–8 sierce, 5–9 searce, 6–9 searse, search (see also E.D.D.).
[f. searce n.; cf. F. sasser.]
trans. To sift through a searce.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 183 Grynde all þese & sarce hem. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 20 Take Appelys an sethe hem, an Serge [Ashmole MS. Sarge] hem þorwe a Sefe in-to a potte. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xi. 414 Bete al this smal, and sarce hit smothe at al. c1440Promp. Parv. 441/2 Saarcyn, colo. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. ii. 15 Take of the cromes of breade well cerced a pounde. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 84 Strewe vpon it y⊇ powder.. beaten very smal & searched through sylke. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 301 Beate it into pouder and serce it through a fine cloth. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 118 Grate a penny loaf, and seirce it through a Cullender. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 124 Fine thin Canvas, or Stuff, to search the Meal through. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. ii. 187 Searce some fine Sugar over them. 1747H. Glasse Cookery 141 Take two Pounds of Flour, a Pound of Sugar finely search'd, mix them together. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 8 Be very careful..that..all these ingredients be well mixed together and searsed through a fine sieve.
b. transf. and fig.
c1535Nisbet N.T., Rom. Prol. (S.T.S.) III. 315 The mare grundly it is searssit, the preciouser thingis ar founde in it. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 147 The dry Earth, having these waters (first) Through the wide sieve of her void entrails sierst. 1623Webster Devil's Law-Case ii. i. C 4 b, You haue Potecaries..will put foure or fiue coxcombs into a sieue..; theyle searse them through like Ginny Pepper. 1644Digby Nat. Soul v. §3. 395 When we haue sifted and searsed the essence of any notion whatsoeuer. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. x, His eye was of that piercing kind which seems designed to search and winnow the frivolous from the edifying part of human discussion.
Hence searced ppl. a., ˈsearcing vbl. n.
1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1546) Cc iv b, Than take pouder of stauisacre serced and myngle all togyther. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. iv, Tut, it is the sorting,..and the searcing, and the decocting, that makes the fumigation, and the suffumigation. 1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass v. 14 Good and well sersed Tarso. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 337/2 The Searce, or Searcer..is a fine Sieve with a Leather cover..to keep the Dant..that nothing be lost of it in the Searceing. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. Introd. 18 The searc'd and dry Farina is spread in the Sun to dry further. |