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Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.

Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. Broome. A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.…

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow.

A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. [Obs.]

rial, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

pecially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess. Shak.

here there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room... was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens.

ice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many Broome.

A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

bled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers. Blount. Muniment house or room, that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

r public musical entertainments. -- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. -- Music of the spheres, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. -- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Mu…

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn. -- My*ce"li*al, a.

That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor cities." Jer. l. 40. "The neighbor room." Shak.

To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. Sir J. Herschel.

r oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.