These are the meanings of the letters ESRCEN when you unscramble them.
- Censer (n.)
A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
- 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.
- Screen (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.
- Screen (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.
- Screen (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.
- Screen (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.
- Screen (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.
- Secern (v. t.)
To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
- Secern (v. t.)
To separate; to distinguish.