Shak.
4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a
place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and
vacated. [Obs.]
When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his
father Herod.
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.