Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..
Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.
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..
Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..
Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..
Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..