incerno

incerno
in-cerno, ĕre, v. a., to sift upon a thing, to cover or bestrew with sifting; to sift, scatter with a sieve:

terram cribro,

Cato, R. R. 48, 2; Col. 5, 6, 6:

super fricaturam incernatur marmor,

Vitr. 7, 1:

incretum ( = per incerniculum sive cribrum inspersum),

sifted in, Hor. S. 2, 4, 75 Orell. (but in Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87, the correct read. is redimitum; v. Sillig. ad h. l.).

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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