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t. -- Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a heated chamber for drying malt.

es, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

he vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.…

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

One-chambered.

A chamber lamp or light. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

dine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]

A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exuds from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly th…

d the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

iary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.