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Chaff

noun

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble.

Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure.

verb

(past & past part. chaffed; pres. part. chaffing)

Be silly or tease one another. Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid.

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"Chaff" Quotes from Famous Books

... unfading verdure, while the name of the tyrant, like his vile body, shall moulder in the dust. Put your trust in the Lord of hosts, he is your strong tower, he is your helper and defense, he will guide and strengthen the arm of flesh, and scatter your enemies like chaff. ...

— The Fall of British Tyranny - American Liberty Triumphant • John Leacock

... amount of unwise desire to satisfy that feeling in fellow-creatures less seriously disposed have sustained him alive, in those baleful Historic Acherons and Stygian Fens, where he has had to dig and to fish so long, far away from the upper light!—Let me request all readers to blow that sorry chaff entirely out of their minds; and to believe nothing on the subject except what they ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Birth And Parentage.--1712. • Thomas Carlyle

... with our reason, because, as there is little to give it birth, there is nothing to cheek it or recall us to our senses in the prospect of consequences. We take up and rend in pieces the mere toys of humour, as the gusts of wind take up and whirl about chaff and stubble. Passion plays the tyrant, in a grand tragi-comic style, over the Lilliputian difficulties and petty disappointments it has to encounter, gives way to all the fretfulness of grief and all ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... 'twon't disappoint you! There's a good deal of rubbish here, but a scattering of grain among the chaff. Ah, messieurs! Good-evening!" ...

— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston

... a very great man, but for him to eliminate theological chaff entirely was impossible. So we find that when he was about to speak, red fire filled the building as soon as he arose. It was all a little like the alleged plan of the late Reverend T. DeWitt Talmage, who used ...

— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

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