Vocabulary : Siesta to Sifter

Siesta : A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.
Sieur : Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.
Sieva : A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).
Sieve : A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. ;; A kind of coarse basket.
Sifac : The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

Sifflement : The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
Sifilet : The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.
Sift : To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime. ;; To separate or part as if with a sieve. ;; To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifted : of Sift
Sifter : One who, or that which, sifts. ;; Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.

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