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Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a q…

Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…

One who believes in Benthamism.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

The nuptial appartment. Matt. ix. 15.

A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.

To chew. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. More.

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.

The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.

One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lewdness. [Obs.] Rom. xiii. 13.

An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.