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Rostrums
pl.
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Rostrum
n.
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The beak or head of a ship.
Rostrum
n.
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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.
Rostrum
n.
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Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
Rostrum
n.
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Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
Rostrum
n.
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The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
Rostrum
n.
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The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
Rostrum
n.
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The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
Rostrum
n.
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Same as Rostellum.
Rostrum
n.
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The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
Rostrum
n.
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A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Rosulate
a.
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Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Rosy
superl.
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Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
Rotted
imp. & p. p.
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Rotting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Rot
v. i.
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To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
Rot
v. i.
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Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Rot
v. t.
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To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rot
v. t.
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To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot
n.
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Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rot
n.
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A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rot
n.
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A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Rota
n.
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An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
Rota
n.
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A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
Rota
n.
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A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Rotacism
n.
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See Rhotacism.
Rotal
a.
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Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
Rotalite
n.
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Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
Rotary
a.
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Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
Rotascope
n.
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Same as Gyroscope, 1.