searce
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of searce
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, obsolete)A sieve; a strainer.
“Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce [translating estamine]: whence are engendred all the vanities and errours wherewith the world is so full-fraught[…].”
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noun
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(countable, obsolete)A sieve; a strainer.
“Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce [translating estamine]: whence are engendred all the vanities and errours wherewith the world is so full-fraught[…].”
verb
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(obsolete)To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.
“My next Difficulty was to make a Sieve, or Searſe, to dreſs my meal, and to part it from the Bran and the Huſk, without which I did not ſee it poſſible I could have any Bread. […] I had nothing like the neceſſary Things to make it with—I mean fine thin Canvas, or Stuff, to ſearſe the Meal through.”
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Etymology
From Middle English sarse, probably from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa. Traditionally derived from Old French saas (Late Latin *saetāceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”)), but this does…
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From Middle English sarse, probably from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa. Traditionally derived from Old French saas (Late Latin *saetāceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”)), but this does not explain the -r- or the final -e of the Middle English form; intrusive -r- before /s/ is sometimes found in Middle English, but one would expect etymological r-less forms to appear alongside such forms.
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