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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..

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

Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.

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

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

Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..

Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

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

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of 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

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

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

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)..

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

Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

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

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

Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

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