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Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

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..

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

Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..

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..

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

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

Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..

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

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

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

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.

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..

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

Chaffed :: Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaf.

Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.

Palea :: Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

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