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Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.

reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't Shak.

of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Change ringing, the continual production, without repetition, of cha…

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.

with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak.

The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden.

Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

Same as Cheliferous.

of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.

veral diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific pois…

in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.

combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

se on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

q.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.