CPage 194
- English Word Chalybean Definition Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel.
- English Word Chalybeate Definition Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
- English Word Chalybeate Definition Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
- English Word Chalybeous Definition Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
- English Word Chalybite Definition Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
- English Word Cham Definition To chew.
- English Word Cham Definition The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
- English Word Chamade Definition A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
- English Word Chamal Definition The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
- English Word Chamber Definition A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
- 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.