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Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

Milton.

3. A tube usually of glass, placed around
a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote
combustion.

4. (Min.) A body of ore, usually
of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Raymond.

Chimney board, a board or screen used to
close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney
cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney,
by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. --
Chimney corner, the space between the sides
of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. --
Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and
kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money,
hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each
chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.),
a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of
a chimney which rises above the roof. -- Chimney
swallow. (Zoöl.) (a) An
American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in
chimneys.


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