Rostrum |
The beak or head of a ship. |
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Rostrum |
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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Rostrum |
Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. |
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Rostrum |
Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds. |
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Rostrum |
The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. |
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