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of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

An alterative. [R.] Chambers.

brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed. Chambers.

f fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

lizards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

ar understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

motragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

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

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

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

requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

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.

Trashy talk. [Obs.] Ascham.

h a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

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.

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

ity 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…

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