Definition of chaff

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

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Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..
Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away..
Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..
Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..
Chaffered :: Chaffered (imp. & p. p.) of Chaffe.
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..
Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.
Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
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)..
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