Air Chamber :: Air chamber () A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant..

Air Chamber :: Air chamber () A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

Amber :: Amber (n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric..

Amber :: Amber (n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky..

Amber :: Amber (n.) Ambergris.

Amber :: Amber (n.) The balsam, liquidambar..

Amber :: Amber (a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.

Amber :: Amber (a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored..

Amber :: Amber (v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine..

Amber :: Amber (v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly..

Amber Fish :: Amber fish () A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis..

Amber Room :: Amber room () A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans..

Amber Seed :: Amber seed () Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed..

Amber Tree :: Amber tree () A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor..

Ambered :: Ambered (p. p. & p. a.) of Ambe.

Ambergrease :: Ambergrease (n.) See Ambergris.

Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212� Fah

Antechamber :: Antechamber (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby..

Antechamber :: Antechamber (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.

Antichamber :: Antichamber (n.) See Antechamber.

Archchamberlain :: Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England..

Bedchamber :: Bedchamber (n.) A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.

Bridechamber :: Bridechamber (n.) The nuptial apartment.

Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck)..

Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..

Camber :: Camber (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve..

Camber :: Camber (v. i.) To curve upward.

Cambered :: Cambered (imp. & p. p.) of Cambe.

Cambering :: Cambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cambe.

Camberkeeled :: Camberkeeled (a.) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship..

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