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Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

miliarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber Mark xiv. 14.

An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.

beetles of the family Carabidæ, living mostly in burrows or under stones, etc. -- Ground chamber, a room on the ground floor. -- Ground cherry. (Bot.) (a) A genus (Physalis) of herbaceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry tomato (P. Alkekengi). See Alkekengl. (b) A European shrub (P…

Gypseous. [R.] Chambers.

ery slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point. "Two infants hanging on her neck." Peacham.

with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.

Of reputable association or use; respectable. Let her descend: my chambers are honorable. Shak.

Of or pertaining to horologiography. Chambers.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

A fee for keeping goods in a house. [R.] Chambers.

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.

ve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weight allows another rush through the main pipe, and so on alternately. -- Hydr…

A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

r; imperial tea, etc. Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc. -- Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. -- Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. -- Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire. -- Imperi…

to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.