Vocabulary : Chafe to Chaffered

Chafe : To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. ;; To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. ;; To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. ;; To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. ;; To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. ;; To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. ;; Heat excited by friction. ;; Injury or wear caused by friction. ;; Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
Chafed : of Chafe
Chafer : One who chafes. ;; A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. ;; A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Chafery : An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
Chafewax : Alt. of Chaffwax

Chafeweed : The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.
Chaff : The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. ;; Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. ;; Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. ;; Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. ;; The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. ;; To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. ;; To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaffed : of Chaff
Chaffer : One who chaffs. ;; Bargaining; merchandise. ;; To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. ;; To talk much and idly; to chatter. ;; To buy or sell; to trade in. ;; To exchange; to bandy, as words.
Chaffered : of Chaffer

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