Definition of chaff

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

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Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..
Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.
Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..
Cheapen :: Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for..
Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Robinet :: Robinet (n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
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..
Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
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..
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