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

Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..

Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Chaffered :: Chaffered (imp. & p. p.) of Chaffe.

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

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away..

Cheapen :: Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for..

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

Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.

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

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

Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.

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

Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.

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

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

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..

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

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

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

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