sieve (subs.) Copy link • sieve (subs.): crībrum: you must pass (the cheese) through a s., per c. facito transeat, Cato, R. R. 76: a fine s., c. tenue, cf. Plin. 18, 11, 27: also, c. arctum, angustum, id.: or, c. subtile (v. fine): to pour water into a s. (Prov.), imbrem [aquam] in c. gerere, Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 100. Dimin.: cribellum (a small s.), Pall.: a s.-maker, cribrarius, Gloss.