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CHAFF, n.

1. The husk, or dry calyx of corn, and grasses. In common language, the word is applied to the husks when separated from the corn by thrashing, riddling or winnowing. The word is sometimes used rather improperly to denote straw cut small for the food of cattle.

2. Refuse; worthless matter; especially that which is light, and apt to be driven by the wind. In scripture, false doctrines, fruitless designs, hypocrites and ungodly men are compared to chaff. Ps. 1:4; Jer. 23:28; Is. 33:11; Mat. 3:12.



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CHAFF, n.

1. The husk, or dry calyx of corn, and grasses. In common language, the word is applied to the husks when separated from the corn by thrashing, riddling or winnowing. The word is sometimes used rather improperly to denote straw cut small for the food of cattle.

2. Refuse; worthless matter; especially that which is light, and apt to be driven by the wind. In scripture, false doctrines, fruitless designs, hypocrites and ungodly men are compared to chaff. Ps. 1:4; Jer. 23:28; Is. 33:11; Mat. 3:12.

CHAFF, n. [Sax. ceaf; D. kaf; G. kaff.]

  1. The husk or dry calyx of corn and grasses. In common language, the word is applied to the husks when separated from the corn by thrashing, riddling, or winnowing. The word is sometimes used rather improperly to denote straw cut small for the food of cattle. – Martyn. Encyc.
  2. Refuse; worthless matter; especially that which is light, and apt to be driven by the wind. In Scripture, false doctrines, fruitless designs, hypocrites and ungodly men are compared to chaff. – Ps. i. 4. Jer. xxiii. 28. Is. xxxiii. 11. Matth. iii. 12.

Chaff
  1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses 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.

  2. To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule] to banter.
  3. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

    Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him.
    Thackeray.

    A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts.
    C. Kingsley.

  4. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

    The chaff and ruin of the times.
    Shak.

  5. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

    By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful.
    Ywatt.

  6. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
  7. The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower.

    Gray.

    Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

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Chaff

CHAFF, noun

1. The husk, or dry calyx of corn, and grasses. In common language, the word is applied to the husks when separated from the corn by thrashing, riddling or winnowing. The word is sometimes used rather improperly to denote straw cut small for the food of cattle.

2. Refuse; worthless matter; especially that which is light, and apt to be driven by the wind. In scripture, false doctrines, fruitless designs, hypocrites and ungodly men are compared to chaff Psalms 1:4; Jeremiah 23:28; Isaiah 33:11; Matthew 3:12.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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