CPage 130
- English Word Chamber Definition Apartments in a lodging house.
- English Word Chamber Definition A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
- English Word Chamber Definition A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
- English Word Chamber Definition A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
- English Word Chamber Definition A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
- English Word Chamber Definition A chamber pot.
- English Word Chamber Definition That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
- English Word Chamber Definition A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
- English Word Chamber Definition A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
- English Word Chamber Definition To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- English Word Chamber Definition To be lascivious.
- English Word Chamber Definition To shut up, as in a chamber.
- English Word Chamber Definition To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
- English Word Chambered Definition of Chamber
- English Word Chambered Definition Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
- English Word Chamberer Definition One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
- English Word Chamberer Definition A civilian; a carpetmonger.
- English Word Chambering Definition of Chamber
- English Word Chambering Definition Lewdness.
- English Word Chamberlain Definition An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
- English Word Chamberlain Definition An upper servant of an inn.
- English Word Chamberlain Definition An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
- English Word Chamberlain Definition A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
- English Word Chamberlainship Definition Office of a chamberlain.
- English Word Chambermaid Definition A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
- English Word Chambermaid Definition A lady's maid.
- English Word Chambertin Definition A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
- English Word Chambrel Definition Same as Gambrel.
- English Word Chameck Definition A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.
- English Word Chameleon Definition A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.