ROSTRUM
\ɹˈɒstɹəm], \ɹˈɒstɹəm], \ɹ_ˈɒ_s_t_ɹ_ə_m]\
Definitions of ROSTRUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
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Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
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Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
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The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
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The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
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The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
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A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
By Oddity Software
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The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
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Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
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Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
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The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
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The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
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The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
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A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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In ancient Rome, an erection for public speakers in the Forum, adorned with the beaks or heads of ships taken in war: the platform from which a speaker addresses his audience.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A beak or beak-like process ; the projecting process between the eyes of a Crayfish ; a median ventral plate at the base of the capitulum of Cirripedes ; etc..
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A name given to several old forceps, on account of their resemblance to the beaks of different birds. The principal were the Rostrum corvinum, anatinum, psittacinum, vulturinum, cygneum seu olorinum, gruinum, lacertinum, etc.
By Robley Dunglison
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