Word Meanings - SIPHUNCLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

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• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• CHAMBER
  1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. 2. To be lascivious.
• CEPHALOPODIC; CEPHALOPODOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.
• THROUGHLY
  Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
• 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
• CEPHALOPODA
  The highest class of Mollusca. Note: They have, around the front of the head, a group of elongated muscular arms, which are usually furnished with prehensile suckers or hooks, The head is highly developed, with large, well organized eyes and ears,
• CHAMBERTIN
  A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
• CHAMBERLAINSHIP
  Office if a chamberlain.
• CEPHALOPOD; CEPHALOPODE
  One of the Cephalopoda.
• 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.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• 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.