Word Meanings - CHAFFLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without chaff.
Related words: (words related to CHAFFLESS)
- 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.