cribration

English

Etymology

Compare French cribration, from Latin cribrare (“to sift”). See cribble (noun).

Noun

cribration (plural cribrations)

1. The separation of the finer parts of drugs from the coarser parts by sifting.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cribration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)