Part 398

Matt. ii. 22.

Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.

Tyndale.

Let Bianca take her sister's room.

Shak.

5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.

Addison.

Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. -- To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. -- To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room.

Make room, and let him stand before our face.

Shak.

Syn. -- Space; compass; scope; latitude.

Room (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rooming.] To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Room, a. [AS. rm.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]

No roomer harbour in the place.

Chaucer.

Room"age (?), n. [From Room. CF. Rummage.] Space; place; room. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Room"er (?), n. A lodger. [Colloq.]

Room"er (?), adv. [See Room, a.] At a greater distance; farther off. [Obs.] Sir J. Harrington.

Room"ful (?), a. Abounding with room or rooms; roomy. "A roomful house." [R.] Donne.

Room"ful, n.; pl. Roomfuls (&?;). As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men. Swift.

Room"i*ly (?), adv. Spaciously.

Room"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Room"less, a. Being without room or rooms. Udall.

Room"mate` (?), n. One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Room"some (?), a. Roomy. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Roomth (?), n. Room; space. [Obs.] Drayton.

Roomth"y (?), a. Roomy; spacious. [Obs.] Fuller.