CHAFF
\t͡ʃˈaf], \tʃˈaf], \tʃ_ˈa_f]\
Definitions of CHAFF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
By Princeton University
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material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
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Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
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Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
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The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
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To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
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To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
By Oddity Software
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The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
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Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
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Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
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The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
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To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
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To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
By Noah Webster.
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The husk of grain, especially when separated by threshing, etc.; anything worthless; good-natured raillery.
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To tease.
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Chaffy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By James Champlin Fernald
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.