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To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust. [Obs.]

A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.

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

Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.

other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

ul flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc. With damasc roses and daffadowndillies set. Spenser. Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tenn…

Worthless; draffy. Bale.

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

ryden. The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family J. P. Mahaffy.

One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

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

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

ity of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute. J. P. Mahaffy.

Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. Gray.

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.

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