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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..

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

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

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

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without 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..

Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

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..

Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..

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

Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.

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

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

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

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

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.

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