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Cruise of the Corwin (1881), p. 18. 4. A cluster of mean tenements inhabited by people of the lowest cla ; a resort of thieves, tramps, ruffians, and the like. All that remained, in the autumn of 1849, of this infamous Rookery (so called as a place of resort for sharpers and quarrelsome people) was included and condensed in ninety-five wretched houses in Church-lane and Carrier street. Murray, London as it is (1860), p. 282. ( Hoppe . ) The misery, the disease, the mortality in rookeries , made continually worse by artificial impediments to the increase of fourth-rate houses. H. Spencer , Man vs. State, p. 54. Yet did the master by all meanes a ay To steare out roomer , or to keepe aloofe. Sir J. Haring ton , tr. of Orlando Furioso (1591), p. 343. [ ( Hall i well .) I have (as your Highne e sees) past already the Godwins [Bishop Godwin), if I can as well pa e over this Edwin Sands (another bishop], I will goe roomer of Greenwiche rocke. Sir J. Haring ton , Addition to the Catalogue of Bishops [(Nugæ Ant., II. 233). We thought it best to returne vnto the harbor which we had found before, and so we bare roomer with the same. Hakluyt's Voyages , L. 236. The wind vering more Northerly, we were forced to put roomer with the coast of England againe. Hakluyt's Voyages , L. 310. room1 (röm), n. [Early mod. E. also rome, roum, rowm ; , rowm , rum , rom , rum , room, = OS. rūm = D. ruim = MLG. LG. rūm = OHG. rūmi , rūmīn , rūm , rūn , MHG. rūm, rūn, G. raum , space, room, = Icel. rūm = Sw. Dan. rum Goth. rums , space; from the adj.: see room1, a. Cf. Pol., Sorbian, and Little Ru . rum, space, room enough for an army. So he rid hym a rowme in a rad hast, Of tho tulkes, with tene, that hym take wold.