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ut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.

ees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

nors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

f; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legilative assembly; -- formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

ich is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. -- Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding…

ng the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

l the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

Amber. See Electrum. [Obs.]

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Belonging to, or made of, amber.

Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

Amber.

The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.