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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.

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.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

See Antechamber.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

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…

The nuptial appartment. Matt. ix. 15.

A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolish…

A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

t; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

rmost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.