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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)..

Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

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

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

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..

Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..

Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

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