Word Meanings - CHAFFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

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• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• GRAINED
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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• FLAILY
  Acting like a flail. Vicars.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• LIGHT-ARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• LIGHTERAGE
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• LIGHT-O'-LOVE
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• COMPOSE
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• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
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  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
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• INGRAIN
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• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
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