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s separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb.

One who chaffs.

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

A vessel for heating water. [Obs.] Johnson.

Traffic; bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

Without chaff.

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

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

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

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] Shak. Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. Fuller.

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

To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

rotestant system the creed is not coördinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. Cowper.

A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [U.S.] For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier.

ing, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.