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

Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..

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..

Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

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

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)..

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

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

Fringilla :: Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling..

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

Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.

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..

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