| 释义 |
sieve-like, a.
[f. sieve n.]
Resembling a sieve; perforated like a sieve.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 369 Thence is't that Garden-pots, the mouth kept close, Let fall no liquor at their sive-like nose. 1639W. Sclater Worthy Commun. 3 So sieve-like are our memories, that they doe..let slip..what should better be retained. a1650May Old Couple iii, So dying aldermen Pour out at once upon their sieve-like heirs Whole gusts of envi'd wealth. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Glanders, The os ethmoides, or sieve-like bone, through which the olfactory nerves pass. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 257 When the juice of the sugar-cane has been boiled down to a syrup, it is put to cool into sieve-like vessels. 1887Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 56 The partition walls..are..only thickened in a sieve-like manner. |