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

Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..

Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.

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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

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..

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

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

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..

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

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

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.

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

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

Chaffery :: Chaffery (n.) Traffic; bargaining.

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

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

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