temse

• tems, tempse

From Middle English temse (“a sieve”) and temsen (“to sieve”), both from Old English temsian, temesian (“to sieve; strain; sift”).

Compare also French tamis, Dutch teems, North Frisian tems, Danish dialectal tems (“sieve”), German dialectal Zims (“sieve”). Compare also tamine. Doublet of tamis.

• IPA^(key): /tɛms/, /tɛmz/

temse (third-person singular simple present temses, present participle temsing, simple past and past participle temsed)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To sift.

temse (plural temses)

1. (UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.
   • 1777, Elizabeth Marshall, The Young Ladies' Guide in the Art of Cookery:

     Stone your apricots , coddle them , and rub them through a temse

• temse bread, temsed bread
• temse loaf

• “temse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tesem, meets, metes, steem, steme, teems, temes

• temes, temeze, temmes, temps, tempse, temys, temze

Inherited from Old English *temes, from Proto-West Germanic *tamisu, of unclear origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːmz(ə)/, /ˈteːmz(ə)/, /ˈtɛmz(ə)/, /-(p)s(ə)/

temse

1. sieve

   Synonym: sive

• temsen

• English: temse, tems, tempse
• Scots: teemse

• “temse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

temse

1. Alternative form of temsen