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Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..

Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.

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

Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.

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..

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