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Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.

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

Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..

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

Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

Cheapen :: Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for..

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

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

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

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

Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

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..

Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..

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

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

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..

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)..

Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.

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