| ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -chaf-, *chaf* |
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| | | chafe | (n) soreness and warmth caused by friction, Example: he had a nasty chafe on his knee | | chafe | (v) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing, Syn. fret, gall | | chafe | (v) feel extreme irritation or anger, Example: He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation | | chafe | (v) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading, Syn. excoriate, Example: This leash chafes the dog's neck | | chafe | (v) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | | chafeweed | (n) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike, Syn. Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed | | chaff | (n) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds, Syn. stubble, straw, husk, shuck, stalk | | chaff | (n) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | | chaffinch | (n) small European finch with a cheerful song, Syn. Fringilla coelebs | | chaffweed | (n) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves, Syn. bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
| | Chafe | v. i. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. [ 1913 Webster ] Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ] The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafe | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chafed p pr. & vb. n. Chafing. ] [ OE. chaufen to warm, OF. chaufer, F. chauffer, fr. L. calefacere, calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See Caldron. ] 1. To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. [ 1913 Webster ] To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. [ 1913 Webster ] Her intercession chafed him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. [ 1913 Webster ] Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- To rub; fret; gall; vex; excite; inflame. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafe | n. 1. Heat excited by friction. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Injury or wear caused by friction. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. [ 1913 Webster ] The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafer | n. [ AS. ceafor; akin to D. kever, G këfer. ] (Zool.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafer | n. 1. One who chafes. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. [ 1913 Webster ] A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafery | n. [ See Chafe, v. t. ] (Iron Works) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chafeweed | n. (Bot.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chaff | v. t. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. [ 1913 Webster ] Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ] A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chaff | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chaffed p. pr. & vb. n. Chaffing. ] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Chaff | n. [ AC. ceaf; akin to D. kaf, G. kaff. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. [ 1913 Webster ] The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. [ 1913 Webster ] By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. Ywatt. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Bot.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into “chaff” for the use of cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]
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