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Chamber
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER,
1. An apartment in an upper story, or in a story above the lower floor of a dwelling house; often used as a lodging room.
2. Any retired room; any private apartment which a person occupies; as, he called on the judge at his chamber.
Joseph entered into his chamber and wept. Gen 43.
3. Any retired place.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Prov 7.
4. A hollow or cavity; as the chamber of the eye.
5. A place where an assembly meets, and the assembly itself; as star-chamber; imperial chamber; chamber of accounts; ecclesiastical chamber; privy chamber; chamber of commerce, etc.
6. In military affairs, the chamber of a mortar is that part of the chase, where the powder lies.
7. A powder-chamber, or bomb-chamber, a place under ground for holding powder and bombs, where they may be safe and secured from rains.
8. The chamber of a mine, a place, generally of a cubical form, where the powder is confined.
9. A species of ordnance.
10. The clouds. Psa 104.
11. Certain southern constellations which are hid from us.
The chambers of the south. Job 9.
Chamber-council, a private or secret council
Chamber-counsel, a counselor, who gives his opinion in a private apartment, but does not advocate causes in court.
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER, v.i.
1. To reside in or occupy as a chamber.
2. To be wanton; to indulge in lewd or immodest behavior. Rom 13.
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER, v.t. To shut up as in a chamber.
chamber appears in definitions for these words:
Anker Antechamber Archchamberlain Bedchamber Blackness Bor Cameo Carronade Chamber Chamber-maid Chamber-practice Chamberer Chambering Chamberlain Chamberlainship Chum Civilly Close-stool Concamerate Corridor Court Creep Cubicular Exchequer Fairy Furnace Great Gromwell Honorable Imperial Incameration Inner Jorden Lascivious Lay Lock Lord Nimbly Nummulite Outside Pilgrimage Privy Saucisse Siphon Sleet Steward Tell-tale Teller Toilet Tribune Underchamberlain Usher Vice-chamberlain Wainscot Widow Zeta
Anker Antechamber Archchamberlain Bedchamber Blackness Bor Cameo Carronade Chamber Chamber-maid Chamber-practice Chamberer Chambering Chamberlain Chamberlainship Chum Civilly Close-stool Concamerate Corridor Court Creep Cubicular Exchequer Fairy Furnace Great Gromwell Honorable Imperial Incameration Inner Jorden Lascivious Lay Lock Lord Nimbly Nummulite Outside Pilgrimage Privy Saucisse Siphon Sleet Steward Tell-tale Teller Toilet Tribune Underchamberlain Usher Vice-chamberlain Wainscot Widow Zeta
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