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To separate (after pounding) the hulled rice (bugás) from the unhulled grains (pásì) by tossing in a shallow basket and throwing the pásì off at the side, either to the right or left. Sisigí ang bugás. Clean (by tossing) the pounded rice from the unhulled rice. Isisíg ang kalálaw. Use the flat-bottomed, low-brimmed bamboo basket for cleaning the rice. (see sirísíri).

The last cleaning of rice before it is washed and got ready for the kettle; to clean rice after the two siftings called "tahúp" and "sisíg" respectively. Alápi ang bugás. Clean the rice. Separate from the rice all admixtures (that should not be boiled together with the clean, properly hulled rice). Iálap akó ánay sináng bugás. Please clean that rice for me. Ipaálap ang bugás sa bátà. Get the servant to clean the rice. Walâ siá sing inalápan. He has no clean rice.

To sift rice, etc. See sisíg. (see sirísíri).

Freq. of sisíg-to sift, clean rice by means of a sieve.

To separate the hulled rice from the unhulled grains after pounding by tossing the whole mass in a shallow bamboo-basket and throwing the unhulled grains (pásì) off in front. Sirisiríha lang ang bugás, kon índì ka makahí-*baló magsisíg. Separate the hulled rice from the unhulled grains by the operation of "sirísíri", if you do not know how to perform the "sisíg". (see sisíg, with the difference that in sisíg the "pásì" are thrown off at the side).

Chaff, husks, refuse; to sift rice, separate the husks from pounded rice by tossing it in a shallow basket called kalálaw. Itahúp iníng kalálaw sa nalíg-as. Clean the pounded rice of husks by means of this kalálaw. Táphi (Tahupí) ang binayó. Clean the pounded rice. Ipatahúp na lang sa íya iníng isá ka lusóng nga humáy nga nabayó na. Just let him clean (of husks) this mortarful of pounded rice. (see sisíg, sirísíri).

See kasírum, kasisídmon.

(H) See makabibígne, makasilígne id.

Horribleness, dreadfulness, horridness, frightfulness, fearfulness, hideousness, repulsiveness, awfulness, state of being shocking to look upon or to hear of. (see sígne, makasisígne).