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

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..

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away..

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..

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

Chaffed :: Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaf.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..

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

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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