chime barrel (chimbar"el)

A revolving barrel or cylinder so fitted with pegs or knobs as to operate the levers by which a chime or IMG:content-0287.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A set of bells (regularly five to twelve) tuned to a musical scale: called chimes, or a chime of bells. When the bells are stationary, and are struck by hammers instead of tongues, the set is more properly called a carillon. Carillons sometimes consist of from 40 to 50 bells, the smaller bells rising in chromatic succe ion, while the larger are generally limited to such fundamental ba es as the tonic, dominant, and subdominant. Wires or bars are occasionally used instead of bells. We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. With their strange, unearthly changes, rang the melancholy chimes. Long fellow, Belfry of Bruges. 3. The harmonious sound of bells, or (rarely) of musical instruments. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0289.png:[blocks in formation] chimer i zing ideas of shallow imchimney-can (chim'ni-kan), n. Same as chim- Boccalini (trans.), 1626, p. 226. ney - pot . See chimæroid . Sophistical dreams and aginative scholars. chimeroid, a. and n. chimict, chimicalt, etc. chemic, chemical , etc. chi min a get, n. [OF., chem in , F. chem in , a way, road.] In old law , a toll for pa age through a forest. chiming-machine (chi'ming-ma-shēn"), n. A machine consisting of a drum with projecting pins, which is turned by a crank, thus pulling the ropes of a chime of bells in such a way as to produce tunes mechanically. chimistt, chimistryt. Obsolete forms of chem- ist, chemistry. chimla (chim'lä), n. A Scotch form of chimney. -Chimla-lug, chimla-neuk, chimla-cheek, the chim- ney-side; the hearth. While frosty winds blaw in the drift, Ben to the chimla - lug . Burns , First Epistle to Davie. chimlay, chimley, chimlie (chim lạ, -li), n. and the hinder that of a dragon, or which, ac- cording to Hesiod, had three heads, one of each Dialectal forms of chimney . of these animals: supposed by the ancients to represent a volcanic mountain of that name in Lycia, the top of which was said to be the re- sort of lions, the middle that of goats, and the foot that of serpents. The Chimera, a symbol of storms and other destructive natural forces, was overcome and slain by the solar hero Bellerophon. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire. Milton , P. L., ii. 628. Hence-2. In ornamental art , etc., a fantastic a emblage of animal forms so combined as to produce a single complete but unnatural design. 3. An absurd or impo ible creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy; a fantastic conceit. We forged a sevenfold story. Kind? what kind? Chimeras, crotchets, Christmas solecisms, Seven-headed monsters only made to kill Time by the fire in winter. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xviii., note. chimeric (ki-mer'ik), a. [ chimera + -ic ; = F. chimérique Sp. quimerico = Pg. chime rico = It. chime rico.] Same as chimerical . chimerical (ki-mer'i-kal), a . [ -al . ] 1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a chimera; wholly imaginary; unreal; fantastic. Chimerical fancies, fit for a shorn head. Bp. Hall , Honour of Married Clergy. I cannot think that Persons of such a Chymerical Ex- istence are proper Actors in an Epic Poem. Add is on, Spectator, No. 273. 2. Incapable of realization; fantastically im- aginative; preposterous: as, chimerical ideas, notions, projects, or fancies. chimmar chimmar (shi-mär'), (sh n. Same as chimere . chimming (chim'ing), n. In mining, same Where chimney'd roofs the steep ridge cope, There smoked an ancient town. to ing . chimney (chim'ni), n.; pl. chimneys , formerly chimnies (-niz). [Cf. dial. chimlay, chimley, chimlie , chimly , chimbly , chembly , chimbler , etc.; chimny , chymney, chimne, chymeney , chim- enee, cheminey , etc., a fireplace, furnace, cheminee, chimenee , F. chem inée = It. cam min at a kam in , kemin , G. kam in = Dan. kam in = OHG. chem ināta , MHG. kemenate (MHG. also kam ină = Pol. komin , caminus ), nat a , a fireplace, prop. (sc. camera ) a room with a fireplace, κάμινος , an oven, furnace.] 1t. A fireplace or hearth. Whan Gawein entred the halle, as ye harde, his moder lay in a chamber by a chymney wherynne was a grete fiere, and she was right pens if for her brother the kynge Arthur. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 182. IMG:content-0290.png:[blocks in formation] The fire which the Chaldeans worshipped for a god is Raleigh , Hist. World. chimneypiece (chim'ni-pēs), n. crept into every man's chimney . 21. A furnace; a forge. Chaucer. And his feet like to latoun [bra ] as in a brenning chym- Wyclif , Rev. i. 15. 3. A vertical structure containing a pa age or main flue by which the smoke of a fire or fur- nace escapes to the open air, or other vapors are carried off; in a steam-engine, the funnel. When several chimneys are carried up together, the ma is called a stack of chimneys , or a chimney - stack . The part of the chimney carried above the roof for discharging the smoke is the chimney- shaft , and the upper part of the shaft is the chimney - top or -head . Chimneys are common- ly built of brick or stone. (The manner in which a chim- ney and fireplace are often connected, and the names of the different parts, are shown in the cut under throat .) The chimneys of some kinds of factories, as chemical IMG:content-0291.png:[blocks in formation] hundred feet, and often as independent structures. They are designed not only to secure a very strong draft, but for the diffusion in the upper air of deleterious fuies, drawn into them through connecting flues. Item, that no chimneys of tre [wood], ner thached houses, be suffred wtyn the cyte. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 372. cylinder surrounding the flame of a lamp to promote com- busti on and keep the flame steady. (6) In mining , a rich cal extension. The ore in a vein is said to occur "in chimneys" when the rich portions are somewhat contin- uous and have a definite direction. If there are several such chimneys, they are expected to be, and occasionally are, roughly parallel with one another. A chimney of ore may be a bonanza , if large and rich enough; but the latter term carries no idea of expected regularity, while chimney does. (c) A lofty head-dre worn by women in the four- teenth century. See hennin . (d) A small tube that pa es through cap of certain stopped pipes in an organ.- Draft of a chimney. See draft . To hovel a chim- IMG:content-0292.png:[blocks in formation] Is south the chamber; and the chimney -piece, Chaste Dian, bathing. Shak ., Cymbeline, ii. 4. chimney-pot (chim'ni-pot), n. A nearly cylin- drical pipe of earthenware, brick, or sheet-metal placed on the top of a chimney to increase the draft and prevent smoking. Also called chim- ney-can. What tiles and chimney - pots About their heads are flying! chimney-stack (chim'ni-stak), n. chimneys carried up together. chimney-stalk (chim'ni-stak), n. A very tall chimney, such as is commonly connected with factories. See chimney , 3. chimney-swallow (chim'ni-swol"ō), n. 1. The Hirundo rustic a , one of the most common European species of swallow.-2. In the Unit- ed States, a species of swift, Chætura pelagic a or pelasgica . Also chimney-swift. See cut un- der Chætura . chimney-sweep, chimney-sweeper (chim'ni- swep, -swē"pėr), n . 1. One whose occupation is the sweeping of chimneys, in order to rid them of the soot that adheres to their sides. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney - sweepers , come to dust. chimney -work beds, and then the higher ones, the miners standing on the fallen debris. It is much like the bell-work of Derby shire. [Midland coalfields, Eng.]