Chameleon: Definition and part of speech

Chameleon

n. A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
n. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
n. Apartments in a lodging house.
n. A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
n. A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. A chamber pot.
n. That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; — formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
n. A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.

n. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
n. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
n. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
n. A claim or demand.
n. The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
n. An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
n. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
n. To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
n. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.