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Hove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

aid chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

The hypoptilum.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

-- Bur"schen*schaft`ler (#), -schaf`ter (#), n.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

t in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

One who chafes.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

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

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

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.