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Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. Thackeray.

pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.

A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.

oon. We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.] J. P. Mahaffy.

ent; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

The shaft of a column.

Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.

The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

nder Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.

g threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. -- Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft. -- Screw bean. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tr…

quiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery. Self-adjusting bearing (Shafting), a bearing which is supported in such a manner that it may tip to accomodate flexure or displacement of the shaft.

self. Self-contained steam engine. (a) A steam engine having both bearings for the crank shaft attached to the frame of the engine. (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.

spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving. To serve an attachment or a writ of attachment (Law), to levy it on the person or goods by seizure, or to seize. -- To serve an execution (Law), to levy it on a lands, goods, or pers…

A shaftment. [Scot.]

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. There shiver shafts upon shields thick. Chaucer The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.] [Obs.] Bp. Bedell.