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

Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.

Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.

Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..

Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..

Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

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

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

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

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

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