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Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

Chaffed :: Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaf.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

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