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 ]

n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A room for balls or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. Syn. -- bar-room, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Room in a bed. [ In this sense preferably bed room. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then by your side no bed room me deny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
Syn. -- council chamber. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bridegome, brudgume, AS. br&ymacr_;dguma (akin to OS. brūdigumo, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. prūtigomo, MHG. briutegome, G. bräutigam); AS. br&ymacr_;d bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of r being caused by confusion with groom. See Bride, and cf. Groom, Homage. ] A man newly married, or just about to be married. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brom, brome, AS. brōm; akin to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. brāmo broom, thorn&unr_;bush, G. brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble, n. ] 1. (Bot.) 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, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. --
Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. --
Spanish broom. See under Spanish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) See Bream. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A tall variety of grass (Sorghum vulgare technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of which brooms are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A broomstick. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick used as a handle of a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. Ruscus aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A private room or apartment. “Stand in some by-room” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The apartment in which a club meets. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily; -- called also cloakroom.
Syn. -- cloakroom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a room, usually at a school or university, set aside for the common use of everyone. It usually has comfortable chairs for reading or conversation, and some provision for obtaining refreshments.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Count, v. ] The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a room used for dining. In a residence, it usually contains a dining table and some furniture, such as a buffet or sideboard, for storing tableware and dining utensils. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room. ] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Syn. -- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. “My soul hath elbowroom.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Stokehold, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) or for table games.
Syn. -- rumpus room, playroom, game room. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

(grēn"room`), n. The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- grill. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Scot. grome, groyme, grume, gome, guym, man, lover, OD. grom boy, youth; perh. the r is an insertion as in E. bridegroom, and the word is the same as AS. guma man. See Bridegroom. ] 1. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Groomed p. pr. & vb. n. Grooming. ] To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Preparing a person for a position requiring skilled behavior, especially by providing opposrtunity for practise and guidance in making the right decisions; as, to provide grooming for one's successor as president. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- training, preparation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The activity of getting dressed, washed and generally of neat appearance. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- dressing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The activity of cleaning oneself or others by removing lice, ticks, dirt, etc. from the fur; -- of animals. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Groomsmen A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the chief attendant is also called the best man; -- the correlative of bridesmaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) See Headway, 2. [ Mostly Brit. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A herdsman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Kroomen One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A room in a house used by all or most of the family, where the family entertain guests or relax together for leisure activities. It usually contains at least one couch, and does not contain a dining table. [ PJC ]

n. a dining room (in a school, business, or other non-domestic facility) where lunch can be purchased. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. muscheron, OF. mouscheron, F. mousseron; perhaps fr. mousse moss, of German origin. See Moss. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn. (b) Any large fungus developing a visible fruiting body with a stem and cap, usu. of the basidiomycetes; especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous. The term mushroom is used most often for edible varieties, the poisonous ones being termed toadstools or other names. But this distinction is often ignored. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mushroom anchor, an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls. --
Mushroom coral (Zool.), any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia. --
Mushroom spawn (Bot.), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom. --
mushroom cloud, a cloud of smoke rising and then spreading laterally to take on the shape of a mushroom -- caused by large fires or explosions, esp. nuclear explosions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. 1. to grow or expand rapidly. [ PJC ]

2. to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full-blown war. [ PJC ]