chafe weed (chafwed)

A local English name for Gnaphalium German i cum, the cudweed. chaffl (chaf), n. [= Sc. caff, MHG. kaf, G. kaff, chaff, prob. akin to OHG. cheva, MHG. * keve, G. käfe, pod, husk, G. dial. (Swi ) kefen (also kifel, Bav. kif - erbes ), green peas in the pod; cf. MHG. kefach, pods collectively.] 1. The glumes or husks of wheat, oats, or other grain and gra es, especially when separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing. Ley hem [pomegranates] feire in chaf that never oon other Touche, and ther thai beeth save ynough. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind That ev'n our corn shall seem as light as chaff . Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 2. Straw cut small for the food of cattle.-3. dian species.-2. A genus of sparoid fishes. Chætosoma (kē-to-sō'mä), n. [NL.,