Definition of chaff

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Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..

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Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The 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..
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..
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
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..
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..
Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..
Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
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