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The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

rtment 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.

See Headway, 2.

A herdsman. [Obs.]

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.

A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.

Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.

An outer room. [R.] Fuller.

A room in which pupils are taught.

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

A magnificent room in a place or great house.

A room for distilling.

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of soldiers smoking. Macaulay.

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. Totten.