Vocabulary : Chalybite to Chamberlainship
Chalybite : Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.Cham : To chew. ;; The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
Chamade : A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Chamal : The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
Chamber : A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers. ;; Apartments in a lodging house. ;; A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber. ;; A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce. ;; A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye. ;; A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court. ;; A chamber pot. ;; That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns. ;; A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. ;; A short piece of ordnance or cannon,
