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Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.

Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.

Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..

Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.

Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.

Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.

Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

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