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l cannonades. Air chamber. See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary. -- Chamber of commerce, a board or association to protect the interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and traders of a city. -- Chamber council, a secret council. Shak. -- Chamber counsel or counselor, a counselor who gives his opinion in…

A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller.

A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of th…

ants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and thoug…

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

lanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.

d that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

eck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.

ter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

To board together; to eat at a table in common.