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Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

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

Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

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

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

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

Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..

Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

Fringilla :: Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling..

Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Chaffed :: Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaf.

Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

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

Pettychaps :: Pettychaps (n.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis)..

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