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

Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.

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

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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