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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..

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

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

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

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.

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

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

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

Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..

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..

Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..

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

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

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

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

Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..

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..

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..

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