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Place or room which another had, has, or might have. "Stewards of your steads." Piers Plowman. In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. Chaucer.

A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand. I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs. Emerson.

breath that hurt her cheek. Mrs. Browning. The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls. Dickens.

able, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.

weet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. Swift.

A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. [R.] Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.

The stem of a fungus or mushroom.

the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.

ss, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions. Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal household. [Eng.] Brande & C.

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]

A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. When most o…

Room in which things may be stowed. Cook. In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures. Addison.

ense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. Broome.

Facing toward the street. Their little streetward sitting room. Tennyson.

The working room of an artist.

oyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.

another person or thing; to exchange. Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others. Congreve.

A cave or room under ground. [R.] J. Bryant.

ession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet.

succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6. Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library. Boswell.…