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state-room
A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...
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Room
·adj Spacious; roomy.
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to room
To occupy a room; to lodge.--Worcester.
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room
A name given to some reserved apartment in a ship, as
♦ The bread-room. In the aftermost part of t...
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Room
The references to "room" in (Matthew 23:6; Mark 12:39; Luke 14:7,8; 20:46) signify the highest place...
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State
·noun Estate, possession.
II. State ·noun A person of high rank.
III. State ·adj <<Stately>>.
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state
To lie in state; to be in bed with three harlots.
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Amber room
·- A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and ...
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By-room
·noun A private room or apartment.
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Drawing-room
·noun The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawin...
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Sea room
·- Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or...
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Tiring-room
·noun The room or place where players dress for the stage.
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Withdrawing-room
·noun A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
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elbow room
Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
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keeping-room
A common sitting-room; the parlor in New England. The term is chiefly used in the interior, although...
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bare-room
An old phrase for bore-down.
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bread-room
The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head...
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capstan-room
See room.
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cook-room
, or cook-house.
The galley or caboose containing the cooking apparatus, and where victuals are dr...
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filling room
Formerly a small place parted off and lined with lead, in a man-of-war magazine, wherein powder may ...
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fish-room
A space parted off by bulk-heads in the after-hold, now used for waste stores, but formerly used for...
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gun-room
A compartment on the after-end of the lower gun-deck of large ships of war, partly occupied by the j...
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light-room
In a ship-of-war, a small space parted off from the magazine, having double-glass windows for more s...
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going room
, room
The old term for going large, or from, the wind. (See lask, to and large.) It is mentioned by...
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sea-room
Implies a sufficient distance from land, rocks, or shoals wherein a ship may drive or scud without d...
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shell-room
An important compartment in ships of war, fitted up with strong shelves to receive the shells when c...
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slop-room
The place appointed to keep the slops in, for the ship's company; generally well aft and dry.
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spirit-room
A place or compartment abaft the after-hold, to contain the ship's company's spirits.
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trade-room
A part of the steerage of a Yankee notion-trader where light goods and samples of the cargo are kept...
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turning-room
Space in a narrow channel for a ship to work in.
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ward-room
The commissioned officers' mess-cabin, on the main-deck in ships of the line.
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Badger State
·add. ·- Wisconsin;
— a nickname.
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Bay State
·add. ·- Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay;
— a nickname.
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Bayou State
·add. ·- Mississippi;
— a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
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Bear State
·add. ·- Arkansas;
— a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
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Beaver State
·add. ·- Oregon;
— a nickname.
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Blackwater State
·add. ·- Nebraska;
— a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the p...
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Centennial State
·add. ·- Colorado;
— a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the cente...
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Chinook State
·add. ·- Washington — a nickname. ·see <<Chinook>>, ·noun.
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Cotton State
·add. ·- Alabama;
— a nickname.
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Coyote State
·add. ·- South Dakota;
— a nickname.
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Cracker State
·add. ·- Georgia;
— a nickname. ·see <<Cracker>>, ·noun 5.
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Creole State
·add. ·- Louisiana;
— a nickname. ·see <<Creole>>, ·noun & a.
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Diamond State
·add. ·- Delaware;
— a nickname alluding to its small size.
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Empire State
·add. ·- New York;
— a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
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Evergreen State
·add. ·- Washington;
— a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.
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Flower State
·add. ·- Florida;
— a nickname, alluding to sense of ·Lat. floridus, from florida flowery. ·see <<F...
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Golden State
·add. ·- California;
— a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
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Gopher State
·add. ·- Minnesota;
— a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.
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Granite State
·- New Hampshire;
— a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
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Hawkeye State
·add. ·- Iowa;
— a nickname of obscure origin.
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Hoosier State
·add. ·- Indiana;
— a nickname of obscure origin.
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Keystone State
·add. ·- Pennsylvania;
— a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original ...
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Lumber State
·add. ·- Maine;
— a nickname.
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Mountain State
·add. ·- Montana;
— a nickname.
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Palmetto State
·add. ·- South California;
— a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation ...
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Panhandle State
·add. ·- West Virginia;
— a nickname.
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Pelican State
·add. ·- Louisiana;
— a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.
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Peninsula State
·add. ·- Florida;
— a nickname.
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Prairie State
·add. ·- Illinois;
— a nickname.
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Sagebrush State
·add. ·- Nevada;
— a nickname.
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Silver State
·add. ·- Nevada;
— a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
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Sioux State
·add. ·- North Dakota;
— a nickname.
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Sooner State
·add. ·- Oklahoma;
— a nickname.
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State socialism
·add. ·- A form of socialism, ·esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of privat...
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Sucker State
·add. ·- Illinois;
— a nickname.
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Sunflower State
·add. ·- Kansas; a nickname.
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Turpentine State
·add. ·- North Carolina;
— a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.
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Volunteer State
·add. ·- Tennessee;
— a nickname.
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Wolverene State
·add. ·- Michigan;
— a nickname.
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bay state
The State of Massachusetts. The original name of the Colony was Massachusetts Bay. Hence, among the ...
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bear state
A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West. I once asked a Western man if Arkansas a...
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bullion state
The State of Missouri; so called in consequence of the exertions made by its Senator, Mr. Benton, in...
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empire state
The State of New York; so called from the enterprise of its people, its wealth, population, extent o...
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granite state
The State of New Hampshire, so called from the abundance of this material found in it.
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keystone state
The State of Pennsylvania. So called from its being the central State of the Union at the time of th...
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palmetto state
The State or capital of South Carolina; so called from the arms of the State, which contain a palmet...
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dining room post
A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham...
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boatswain's store-room
Built expressly for boatswain's stores, on a platform or light deck.
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bread-room jack
The purser's steward's help.
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captain's store-room
A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores.
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carpenter's store-room
An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...
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engine-room telegraph
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below.
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lieutenant's store-room
More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see).
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marine clothing-room
A compartment of the after-platform, to receive the clothes and stores of the royal marines.
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timber and room
, is the distance between two adjoining timbers, which always contain the breadth of two timbers, an...
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ward-room officers
Those who mess in the ward-room, namely: the commander, lieutenants, master, chaplain, surgeon, paym...
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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee;
— a nickname.
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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
— a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...
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Blue-grass State
·add. ·- The Sate of Kentucky;
— a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses ar...
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Lone-Star State
·add. ·- Texas;
— a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used...
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North Star State
·add. ·- Minnesota;
— a nickname.
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Old Line State
·add. ·- Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's ...
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Pine-tree State
·add. ·- Maine;
— a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.
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green mountain state
The State of Vermont.
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Lombard Exchange and Reading Room
On the south side of Lombard Street, about No. 40 (O.S. 1880).
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jack in the bread-room
, or jack in the dust.
The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room.
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lady of the gun-room
A gunner's mate, who takes charge of the after-scuttle, where gunners' stores are kept.
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well-room of a boat
The place in the bottom where the water lies, between the ceiling and the platform of the stern-shee...
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Empire State of the South
·add. ·- Georgia;
— a nickname.
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Empire State of the West
·add. ·- Missouri;
— a nickname.
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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry.
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