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d size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

el is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.

cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. [U. S.] Senate chamber, a room where a senate meets when it transacts business. -- Senate house, a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.

nkia) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (C. nictitans, and C. Chamæcrista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.

the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.

The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing. [Obs.] Peacham.

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. [Colloq.]

cer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

The chamois.

here sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. -- Sheep's bit (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of…

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver. [Colloq. U.S.]

The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. [R.] Ascham.

A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. [Obs.] [Written also soler, solere, sollar.] Oxf. Gloss.

single; alone; lonely. Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. Milton. Hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. Shak.

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.