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Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

ral covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.

ing and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

ristianity. -- Holy office, the Inquisition. -- Holy of holies (Script.), the innermost apartment of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest once a year. -- Holy One. (a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. " The Holy One of Israel.…

substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.

One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

stance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.

penthouse, and to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.

A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Holland.

Having light; not dark or obscure; bright; clear; as, the apartment is light.

To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets. [In this sense less common than light.] A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze. Dryden.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope.

A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.

signate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.