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Without chaff.

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. Chafing dish, a dish or vessel for cooking on the table, or for keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where t…

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

le of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] Shak.

Heating; burning. [Obs.] The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. Chaucer.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independe…

An arrow. [Obs.]

A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

cts of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafeï.

arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.

Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]

imp. of Upheave. Chaucer.