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

Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..

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..

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..

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..

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

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.

Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

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

Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.

Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.

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

Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..

Pettychaps :: Pettychaps (n.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis)..

Bran :: Bran (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain..

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..

Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.

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