Definition of chaff

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Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

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Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..
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..
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 (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.
Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..
Chaffing :: Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter..
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
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