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A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

erly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

m. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

y at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are f…

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

apter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller.

Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

A chamber or a cottage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.