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Chaff
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
(2):
(n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
(3):
(n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
(4):
(n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
(5):
(n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
(6):
(v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
(7):
(v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chaff'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/chaff.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chaff'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/chaff.html. 1828.
