Word Meanings - BOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chamber or a cottage. Chaucer.

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• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• COTTAGE
  A small house; a cot; a hut. Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• CHAMBER
  1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. 2. To be lascivious.
• COTTAGED
  Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.
• COTTAGELY
  Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. Jer. Taylor.
• CHAMBERLAIN
  OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. 1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. 2. An upper servant of an inn. 3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a
• COTTAGER
  One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. (more info) 1. One who lives in a cottage.
• CHAMBERTIN
  A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
• CHAMBERLAINSHIP
  Office if a chamberlain.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  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
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• AIR CHAMBER
  1. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. 2. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.
• BEDCHAMBER
  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. -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar
• ANTICHAMBER
  See ANTECHAMBER
• UNDERCHAMBERLAIN
  A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
• ARCHCHAMBERLAIN
  A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.
• BRIDECHAMBER
  The nuptial appartment. Matt. ix. 15.
• ANTECHAMBER
  1. A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby. 2. A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to