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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Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.
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..
Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.
Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
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..
Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
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