Screen (skrēn), n. (Cricket)
An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to
see ball better.
Screen (skrēn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Screening.]
1. To provide with a shelter or
means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits
screened from cold winds
by a forest
or hill.
They were
encouraged and screened by
some who were in high
commands.
Macaulay. 2. To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
Screen (skrēn), n. [OE. scren, OF.
escrein, escran, F. écran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scirm, scerm a protection, shield, or G.
schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G.
schranne a railing.]
1. Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Your leavy screens throw down.
Shak. Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and
envy.
Bacon. 2. (Arch.) A dwarf wall or
partition carried up to a certain
height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the
like.
3. A surface, as
that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an
image, as a
picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope,
etc.
4. A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder,
used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
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