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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.

A little hook.

Bearing a small hook at the end. Gray.

A hook, or hooklike process.

rmerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

Clinging, as by hooks.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

See Antechamber.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

To shame. [R.] Barrow.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed pers…

Bashfully. [R.]