Word Meanings - INCHAMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.

Related words: (words related to INCHAMBER)

• 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.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• LODGE
  1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can
• 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.
• LODGER
  One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
• LODGED
  Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
• 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
• CHAMBERTIN
  A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
• LODGEMENT
  See LODGMENT
• CHAMBERLAINSHIP
  Office if a chamberlain.
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• 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
• RELODGE
  To lodge again.
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• 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.