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A drinking cup. [Written also romkin.] [Obs.] Halliwell.

A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. Luke ii. 7.…

One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor. Addison.

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. sambucifolia).…

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

, no doubt She must have long ago run out. Dryden. -- To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. -- To run riot, to go to excess. -- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run…

owsprit (Naut.) Same as Reefing bowsprit. -- Running days (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under working days. Simmonds. -- Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon. -- Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working pa…

A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also Sauks.]

One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.

One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.Samoyeds.

A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. "Scant not my cups." Shak.

An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.