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Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.

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

Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.

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

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

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

Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

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

Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

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

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