Chaff, in husbandry, the husks of the corn separated from the grain, by screening or winnow-ing it. This term is also applied to the rind of corn, which in grind-ing it, produces the coarser part of the meal.

By treating corn in a manner si-milar to that practised by the Tar-tars with buck-wheat (see pp. 376 and 377), Mi may be easily de-prived of its rind, or, in a manner, blanched; and the game effect may be produced by merely steep-ing it in water, and expressing the starch : but the husky part thus separated, cannot with propriety be called choff, as it is in reality part of the grain. Nor do we think that cut straw deserves that appel-lation ; because it is a distinct part, or the stalk of the plant. For this reason, we shall delay the descrip-tion of its properties, as well as the various machines invented for sav-ing the labour of cutting straw by the hand.