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district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

trict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

aken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .

To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.

ology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

nce, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

ng Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

rican (U. gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff- chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

e transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance more will do." Coleridge.

small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).