Chamæsauridæ (kames a ride)

pl. [NL., chaumber, Sc. chalmer, etc.; And beside tho Welles, he had lete make faire Halles and faire Chambres , depeynted alle with Gold and Azure. Mandeville , Travels, p. 278. The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Young, Night Thoughts, ii. 633. High in her chamber up a tower to the east. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. chamberer 6t. A short piece of ordnance without a carriage and standing on its breech, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical purposes. For the close of this their honourable entertainment, a peal of chambers. Middle ton, Entertainment at Opening of New River. A gallant peal of chambers gave a period to the entertainment. Howell , Londinopolis, p. 11. 7. A bedroom utensil, used for containing urine; a chamber-pot. Branchial chamber. See branchial. -Chamber of Agriculture. See agriculture. Cham ber of a urance. (a) A company organized in France for the purpose of carrying on the busine of insurance. (b) A court in the Netherlands where cases relating to insurance are tried.- Chamber of commerce, a voluntary a ociation of the merchants and traders of a city or town for the trade, under protection and promotion of their amber of Deputies See deputy. Chambers of Rhetoric, the literary guilds that flourished in the Netherlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They were medieval in taste, middle-cla in tone and ideas, and famous for their wealth influence. The Amsterdam guild, known as the "Eglantine," was the most celebrated. - Chambers of the eye, the space between the cornea and anterior surface of the iris, called the anterior chamber, and the space between the posterior surface of the iris and the crystalline lens, called the posterior chamber, both spaces being filled with the aqueous humor. See cut under eye. - Chambers of the kingt, the ports or havens of England: so called in old records. E. Phillips, 1706.- Ciliated chambers. See ciliated. - Clerk of the chamber. See clerk. - Drying-chamber, a hot closet for drying printed stuffs. It has a series of rollers near the top and bottom of the room, and over these the cloth pa es, after which it goes to the folding-room.- Judges' chambers. See 2 ( a ), above.Star Chamber. See star- chamber. To sit at chambers, to despatch summary busine in chambers: said chamber (chamber), v. [ chamber , n.] I. in trans. 1. To reside in or occupy a chamber. - 2. To fit snugly, as layers of buckshot in the barrel of a gun or in a cartridge. See extract under II., 3. II. trans. 1. To shut up in or as in a chamber. The best blood chamber'd in his bosom. Shak., Rich. II., i. 1. Thy cold pale figure, Which we have commi ion but to chamber up In melancholy dust. Shirley , Witty Fair One, v. 3. 2. To furnish with a chamber, as the barrel of a breech-loading firearm. Guns are often chambered in order to enlarge the rear portion of the bore, so as to increase the powder-capacity behind the projectile. 3. To fit into the barrel of a gun or into a cartridge, as buckshot. One should be careful to chamber the buckshot at the choke of the gun, and to choose the size that most nearly chambers. 2. pl . (a) A room or rooms where profe ional men, as lawyers, conduct their busine ; espe- cially, any place out of court (usually a room set apart for this purpose) where a judge may dispose of questions of procedure of a cla not vate or secret council. Forest and Stream, XXII. 225. chamber-council (chamber-koun"sil), n. Pri I have trusted thee, Camillo, With all the nearest things to my heart, as well My chamber - councils . sufficiently important to be heard and argued in court, or too urgent to await a term of court: distinctively called judges chambers. (6) Furnished rooms hired for residence in chamber-counsel (cham'bėr-koun"sel), n. Same as chamber - counselor. Shak., W. T., i. 2. the house of another; lodgings: as, "a bach- elor life in chambers," Thackeray .-3. A place chamber-counselor (cham'ber-koun"sel-or), n . where an a embly a embly meets: as, a legislative chamber, ecclesiastical ecclesiastical chamber, privy chamber, etc.-4. The a embly itself; sometimes, specifically, one of the branches of a legislative a embly: as, the New York Chamber of Com merce; a meeting of the legislative chamber. That no brewer breke it, upon payne of xl. s., forfeitable to the chambre of the Toune. mitted. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 425. In the Imperial chamber this vulgar answer is not ad Ayliffe , Parergon. 5. A compartment or inclosed space; a hollow or cavity: as, the chambers of the eye (see below); the chamber of a furnace. The chambres in the bathes may be wrought As cisterne is. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 41. And all the secret of the Spring Moved in the chambers of the blood. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. Specifically-(a) In hydraulic eng in.: (1) The space between the gates of a canal-lock. (2) The part of a pump in which the bucket of a plunger works. (b) Milit.: (1) That part of a barrel, at the breech of a firearm or piece of ordnance, which is enlarged to receive the charge or cartridge; also, a receptacle for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or of a breech-loading gun. (2) An underground cavity or mine for holding powder and bombs, where they may be safe and dry. Distinctively called powder - cham ber and bomb - chamber. (c) The indentation in an axle-box, designed to hold the lubricant. (d) That part of a mold containing the exterior part of a casting and covering the core in hollow castings. (e) In an at.: (1) A cavity representing the urogenital sinus of the embryo undifferentiated into a prostatic and bulbous urethra. (2) See chambers of the eye, below. (f) In conch.: (1) The interval between the septa of the camerated shell of a cephalopod, such as species of Nautilus or Ammonites, as well as the portion of the shell in which the animal rests. (2) A cavity separated from another or the main part of the interior of the shell by a septum. ( g ) In coal - mining, same as breast or room. See breast. [Pennsylvania.] IMG:content-0132.png:[blocks in formation]