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

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

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

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

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

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, 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

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

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

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

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

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..

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.

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

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.

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..

Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..

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