Definition of chaff

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

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Cheapen :: Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for..
Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.
Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..
Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..
Chaffed :: Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaf.
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..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.
Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..
Robinet :: Robinet (n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
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