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Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

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

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..

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

Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.

Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..

Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.

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..

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

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

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

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..

Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.

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

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