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Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.

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..

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

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

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

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Fringilla :: Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling..

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

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

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..

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