Search the Dictionary

ain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.

ion, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

whether it as has been tampered with. -- Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber. -- Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock. -- Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check. -- Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached. -- Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary…

A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

ns above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. [Eng.]

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

alt. -- Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a heated chamber for drying malt.

ties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

r recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.…

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

), a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

One-chambered.

A chamber lamp or light. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.