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A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]

overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.

An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a strong flavor but is edible.

A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.

a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

ng, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. -- Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. -- The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.

s to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

den collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room." Swift.

he distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.…