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Office if a chamberlain.

A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.

A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

Same as Gambrel.

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamæleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

To change into various colors. [R.]

To make a chamfer on.

A chamfer.

The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. [Written also champfrain and chamfrain.]

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

See Camlet. [Obs.]

A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.

See Camomile.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

A flat, open country. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.