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

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..

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

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

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

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

Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.

Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of 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)..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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