(n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
(n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
(n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
(n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
(n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
(v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
(v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, Tribulus terrestris (caltrop), Abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or Ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term.
(2) a basal diet of sugar and oaten chaff which was supplemented with fish meal at various levels.
(3) Sulfur pools in the rumen and sulfur flows from the rumen were investigated in two experiments with sheep on a diet containing equal parts of oaten and lucerne chaffs.
(4) A study was made of the effect of rice chaff oil (ASA) on gastroduodenal ulcer (UGD) induced by different techniques: cysteaminium chloride, indomethacin, artificial gastric juices and stress (acidity, histamine, pepsin and volume of gastric juice were evaluated).
(5) Cross-reacting allergens were detected in samples of coffee dust, cleaner can debris and green coffee beans, but not in chaff or roasted coffee beans.
(6) The authors review common cases of syncope and outline a practical approach to rapidly identifying high-risk patients--in other words, to separating the "wheat" from the "chaff."
(7) Four Merino ewes given lucerne chaff (33 g every hour) were used.
(8) Others use the warm wind blowing from the nearby Negev desert to separate rough legumes from chaff.
(9) Asked if he meant the split in his party would separate “the wheat from the chaff”, Huelskamp smiled broadly, and said that was a phrase he often used on his farm, in Kansas.
(10) The trick is to filter out the wheat from the chaff, most of which is as Seth describes, "all from an intelligent society, namely ours".
(11) In a carcinogenicity study 443 out of 956 rats had chaff from oat and barley in the mouth between the molars and the gingiva.
(12) Three grey knagaroos and three sheep were given a diet of lucerne chaff and measurements were made of feed intake, digestibility coefficients, methane production rate and volatile fatty acid content of the "stomach" and caecum for each animal.
(13) Linseed (91%), oats (83%), barley chaff (88%) and wheat bran (82%) are other excellent binders of E2.
(14) Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff – remains an open wound of Mugabe's 31-year rule .
(15) The Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff – was Mugabe's response to the rivalry after independence in 1980 between his Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu).
(16) volume) and heart rate were measured on four occasions, evenly spread over a 12-month period, with the deer individually fed indoors on a diet of lucerne (Medicago sativa) chaff.
(17) The protozoal populations in the rumen of cattle fed on the diet with the low level of oaten chaff were mainly small ciliates; but on the higher level of chaff in the diet, the large ciliates were a higher proportion of the total protozoal population present.
(18) An analysis is made of the physiologic aspects studied in each technique, emphasizing the possible implication of prostaglandins (PG) and alpha-tocopherol after treatment with rice chaff oil.
(19) The beans are separated from their skin, known as the chaff, and when fully roasted they are transferred into a glass jar ready to be ground.
(20) Balances for digestion of food determined for the rumen indicated that the energies in the end-products were more than 100% of the DE intakes of lucerne chaff.
Chaffy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
(a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
(a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
(a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.