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

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

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

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

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

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..

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

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

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..

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

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

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

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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

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)..

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

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

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