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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..

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..

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..

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

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

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

Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..

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

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)..

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

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

Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.

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

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

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

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

Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

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