Word Meanings - CHAFFLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without chaff.

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.