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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

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..

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

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

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

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

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

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

Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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..

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..

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

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

Robinet :: Robinet (n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.

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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

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