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The place where the moneys due the government (municipal or other) are received and kept; the treasury; the chamberlain's office. See chamberlain, 2.
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of the British and American Divines who in 1870 and following year's produced the present Revised Version of the Bible; and
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of the Upper House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury: so named from its tapestried walls which show many scenes from Jerusalem. Here Henry IV. died.
To reside in or occupy a chamber.
To fit snugly, as layers of buckshot in the barrel of a gun or in a cartridge. See extract under II., 3.
To shut up in or as in a chamber.
To furnish with a chamber, as the barrel of a breech-loading firearm.
To fit into tho barrel of a gun or into a cartridge, as buckshot.
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A room of a dwelling-house; an apartment; specifically, a sleeping-apartment; a bedroom.
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plural
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A room or rooms where professional men, as lawyers, conduct their business; especially, any place out of court (usually a room set apart for this purpose) where a judge may dispose of questions of procedure of a class not sufficiently important to be heard and argued in court, or too urgent to await a term of court: distinctively called judges' chambers.
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Furnished rooms hired for residence in the house of another; lodgings: as, “a bachelor life in chambers,”
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A place where an assembly meets: as, a legislative chamber, ecclesiastical chamber, privy chamber, etc.— 4. The assembly itself; sometimes, specifically, one of the branches of a legislative assembly: as, the New York Chamber of Commerce; a meeting of the legislative chamber.
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A compartment or inclosed space; a hollow or cavity: as, the chambers of the eye (see below); the chamber of a furnace.
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Specifically— In hydraulic engin,:
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The space between the gates of a canal-lock.
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The part of a pump in which the bucket of a plunger works.
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Milit.:
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That part of a barrel, at the breech of a firearm or piece of ordnance, which is enlarged to receive the charge or cartridge; also, a receptacle for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or of a breech-loading gun.
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An underground cavity or mine for holding powder and bombs, where they may be safe and dry. Distinctively called powder-chamber and bomb-chamber.
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The indentation in an axle-box, designed to hold the lubricant.
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That part of a mold containing the exterior part of a casting and covering the core in hollow castings.
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In anatomy: A cavity representing the urogenital sinus of the embryo undifferentiated into a prostatic and bulbous urethra.
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See chambers of the eye, below.
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In conchology:
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The interval between the septa of the camerated shell of a cephalopod, such as species of Nautilus or Ammonites, as well as the portion of the shell in which the animal rests.
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A cavity separated from another or the main part of the interior of the shell by a septum.
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In coal-mining, same as breast or room. See breast.
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A short piece of ordnance without a carriage and standing on its breech, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical purposes.
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A bedroom utensil, used for containing urine; a chamber-pot.
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A court in the Netherlands where cases relating to insurance are tried.