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Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.

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

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

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..

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

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

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

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

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

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

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.

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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.

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

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

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