(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
