chamber dak int, chamberdekint

[Said to be a corruption of ML. camera degens, living in a chamber: camera, abl. of (L.) camera, chamber; degens, ppr. of L. degere, pa time, live, A certain sort of scholars called chamberdekins, no other, as it seems, than Irish beggars, who, in the habit of poor scholars, would often disturb the peace of the university, live under no government of principals, keep up for the most part in the day, and in the night-time go abroad to commit spoils and manslaughter, lurk about in taverns and houses of ill-report, conimit burglaries and such like. Anthony à Wood. chambered (cham'bèrd), a . [ chamber , n., + -ed2.] 1. Divided into compartments by walls or partitions. And every chambered cell Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell. O. W. Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus. Specifically, in bot., applied to compound ovaries in which the placentas project inward but do not meet in the axis, as in the poppy. 2. Provided with a chamber for gunpowder: said of cannon.- Chambered shells, a name invented as a vernacular equivalent for the family Calyptræidæ. Adams, 1854.