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Word Meanings - CHAFFLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without chaff.

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  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • CHAFFER
    One who chaffs.
  • CHAFFINCH
    A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • CHAFFERN
    A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • CHAFFING
    The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
  • WITHOUT
    1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
  • CHAFFY
    1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales,
  • CHAFFERER
    One who chaffers; a bargainer.
  • CHAFF
    The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks
  • CHAFFLESS
    Without chaff.
  • CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
    Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
  • CHIFF-CHAFF
    A species of European warbler ; -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

 

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