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Room
·adj Spacious; roomy.
II. Room ·vi To occupy a room or rooms; to <<Lodge>>; as, they arranged to ro...
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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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Shell
·noun A <<Pod>>.
II. Shell ·vi To fall off, as a shell, crust, ·etc.
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shell
In artillery, a hollow iron shot containing explosive materials, whether spherical, elongated, eccen...
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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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state-room
A small room in a ship or steam-vessel for one or two passengers.--Worcester.
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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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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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state-room
A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...
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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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Acorn-shell
·noun One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. ·see <<Barnacle>>.
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Argus shell
·- A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peaco...
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Ark shell
·- A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.
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Boat shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
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Bubble shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
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Ear-shell
·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis;
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Fig-shell
·noun A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
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Goroon shell
·- A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Ioqua shell
·- The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, b...
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Maara shell
·- A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used...
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Mail-shell
·noun A <<Chiton>>.
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Mask shell
·- Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
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Pouch-shell
·noun A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).
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Rice-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.
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Shell-lac
·noun ·Alt. of <<Shellac>>.
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Shell-less
·adj Having no shell.
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Slit-shell
·noun Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a d...
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Soft-shell
·adj ·Alt. of Soft-shelled.
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Spur-shell
·noun Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. Th...
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Tongue-shell
·noun Any species of Lingula.
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Top-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochi...
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Torpedo shell
·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...
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Trough-shell
·noun Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. ·see <<Mactra>>.
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Tube-shell
·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
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Tulip-shell
·noun A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern...
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Turban-shell
·noun A sea urchin when deprived of its spines;
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Turnip-shell
·noun Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, som...
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Turtle-shell
·noun The turtle cowrie.
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Tusk-shell
·noun ·see 2d Tusk, ·noun, 2.
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Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
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Wedge-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in w...
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Wing-shell
·noun Any pteropod shell.
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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus.
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Wreath-shell
·noun A marine shell of the genus Turbo. ·see <<Turbo>>.
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oat-shell
n.
the shell of various species of Columbella, a small marine mollusc used for necklaces.
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rice-shell
n.
The name is applied elsewhereto various shells; in Australia it denotes the shell of variousspec...
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rosary-shell
n.
In Europe, the name isapplied to any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. In Australia...
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shell-grinder
n.
another name for the Port-Jackson Shark (q.v.).
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tooth-shell
n. The name is applied, inEurope, to any species of Dentalium and allied generahaving a tooth-shaped...
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to shell out
means to hand over money.
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clam-shell
The lips, or mouth. There is a common though vulgar expression in New England, of "Shut your clam-sh...
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blind-shell
One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...
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bomb-shell
A large hollow ball of cast-iron, for throwing from mortars (distinguished by having ears or lugs, b...
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crow-shell
A fresh-water mussel.
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live-shell
One filled with its charge of powder or other combustible. It is also called a loaded shell.
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loaded-shell
A shell filled with lead, to be thrown from a mortar. The term is also used for live-shells.
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mail-shell
A name for the chiton.
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segment-shell
For use with rifled guns; an elongated iron shell having very thin sides, and built up internally wi...
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shell-fish
A general term applied to aquatic animals having a hard external covering or shell, as whelks, oyste...
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shell, shrapnel
See shrapnel shell.
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shrapnel shell
Invented by General Shrapnel to produce, at a long range, the effect of common case; whence they hav...
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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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roman-lamp shell
name given in Tasmania to abrachiopod mollusc, Waldheimia flavescens, Lamarck.
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tortoise-shell fish
See hand-fish.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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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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room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
Stealing poultry.
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