in Architecture, a particular part of a house, where the fire is made, having a tube or funnel to carry off the smoke. The word chimney comes from the French cheminée; and that from the Latin caminata, "a chamber wherein is a chimney;" caminata, again, comes from caminus; and that from the Greek καμίνος, "a chimney;" of καίω, uro, "I burn."

Chimneys are usually supposed a modern invention; the ancients only making use of stoves; but Octavio Ferrari endeavours to prove chimneys in use among the ancients. To this end, he cites the authority of Virgil,

*Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant:*

and that of Appian, who says, "That of those persons proscribed by the triumvirate, some hid themselves in wells and common sewers, and some on the tops of houses and chimneys;" for so he understands καταφυγίαι ὑπόγειαι, fumaria sub teeto postita. Add, that Aristophanes, in one of his comedies, introduces his old man, Polycleon, shut up in a chamber, whence he endeavours to make his escape by the chimney.