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Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.

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

Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..

Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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