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d 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.

Space; place; room. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A lodger. [Colloq.]

Abounding with room or rooms; roomy. "A roomful house." [R.] Donne.

Spaciously.

The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Being without room or rooms. Udall.

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

Roomy. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Room; space. [Obs.] Drayton.

Roomy; spacious. [Obs.] Fuller.

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck. Dryden.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

A room for balls or dancing.

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

ht of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.