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A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

One who copies manuscript books. [Obs.] Broome.

Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of. The plan of extortion had been adopted in lieu of the scheme of confiscation. Burke.

To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; -- with up; as, the room light up very well.

Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room. Chaucer.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

ber of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. Broome.

red about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. Swift.

receives. [Eng.] He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living Macaulay. Livng room, the room most used by the family.

on, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]

The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.

attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

long the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense. Sir H. Wotton. The longitude of their cloaks. Sir. W. Scott. Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense. Cowper.