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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Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.
Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..
Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.
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
Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.
Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
Chaffery :: Chaffery (n.) Traffic; bargaining.
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..
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
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