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LOB'BY, n.

1. An opening before a room, or an entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a considerable space between that and the portico or vestibule.

2. A small hall or waiting room.

3. A small apartment taken from a hall or entry.

4. In a ship, an apartment close before the captain's cabin.

5. In agriculture, a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees or other fencing, near the farm-yard.
1913 Definition
Lobby (lobby)
n.(?)
Lob"by
; pl. Lobbies (#). [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]
  1. A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
  2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
    [U.S.]
  3. An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter- deck.
  4. A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.

    Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]

  5. To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
    [U.S.] Bartlett.
  6. To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body] as, to lobby a bill.
    [U.S.]

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