Cha*lyb"e*ate (?), a. [NL. chalybeatus, fr. chalube´us. See Chalubean.] Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Cha*lyb"e*ate, n. Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
Cha*lyb"e*ous (?), a. (Zo÷l.) Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
Chal"y*bite (?), n. (Min.) Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
Cham (?), v. t. [See Chap.] To chew. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. More.
Cham (?), n. [See Khan.] The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan. Shak.
Cha*made (?), n. [F. chamade, fr. Pg. chamada, fr. chamar to call, fr. L. clamare.] (Mil.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche.
Addison.
||Cha"mal (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo÷l.) The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
Cham"ber (?), n. [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. &?; anything with a vaulted roof or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf. Camber, Camera, Comrade.]
1. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
2. pl. Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.
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. pl. (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.