Noun: temse
| Singular | temse |
| Plural | temses |
Sample Sentences
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Stone your apricots , coddle them , and rub them through a temse [1777, Elizabeth Marshall, The Young Ladies' Guide in the Art of Cookery:]
Nouns inflected like temse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English temse (“a sieve”) and temsen (“to sieve”), both from Old English temsian, temesian (“to sieve; strain; sift”).
2. Compare also French tamis, Dutch teems, North Frisian tems, Danish dialectal tems (“sieve”), German dialectal Zims (“sieve”). Compare also tamine. Doublet of tamis. See: Middle English Nouns '
temse', Old English Nouns '
temsian', French Nouns '
tamis', Dutch Nouns '
teems'.
Verbs referencing "temse"
French Nouns
tamis.