Definition of chaff

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Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

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Bran :: Bran (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain..
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.
Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.
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..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..
Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.
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..
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..
Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
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