Chamber
Definition of Chamber
Cham´ber | n. | 1. | | | 1. | A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers. | | 2. | Apartments in a lodging house. | | 3. | A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber. | | 4. | A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | (Law.) 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. | | 7. | A chamber pot. | | 8. | (Mil.) 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. | | 2. | To be lascivious. | | v. t. | 1. | To shut up, as in a chamber. | | 2. | To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun. |
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