Chamlet

See CAMLET. Cha'mois, in Mi ouri, a post-village of Osage co., on the Mi ouri River, 100 m. W. of St. Louis. Cha'mois, (sha'mwa,) n. [Fr.; Sp. gamúza , from gámo , a buck; Gr. kemas , a young deer.] ( Zool .) A genus of the sub-family Antelope , inhabiting the middle regions of the high mountains of W. Europe. It is about the size of a goat, of a deep brown color, and its horns towards the summit are bent abruptly backward like a hook. The C. is exceedingly shy, and on the slightest alarm bounds away with a speed that is truly wonderful, over rocks, glaciers, along the brinks of dizzy heights, and up and down precipices where it would seem that no animal could get a foothold, - often leaping upon a shelf of rock of scarcely more than a hand's -A kind of soft leather, made from the dre ed skin of the chamois. (Sometimes, and popularly, called shammy.) Chamoi's ite, n. ( Min .) A mixture of magnetic iron and a hydrous sylicate of alumina, found at Chamois in, Valais.