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es, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.

a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

ll writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.

a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat. The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls. Macaulay.

(a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

partment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

The parlor or reception room of a convent. [Obs.]

house; 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 of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove…

om another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.