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Bran :: Bran (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain..

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.

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..

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

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

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away..

Pulu :: Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent..

Chaffered :: Chaffered (imp. & p. p.) of Chaffe.

Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..

Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..

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

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

Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..

Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..

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