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

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

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

Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..

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

Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.

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

Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

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

Robinet :: Robinet (n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.

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..

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..

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..

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

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