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Rostrum   /rˈɑstrəm/   Listen
noun
Rostrum  n.  (pl. L. rostra, E. rostrums)  
1.
The beak or head of a ship.
2.
pl. (Rostra) (Rom. Antiq.) 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.
3.
Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. "Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor."
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
(b)
The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
(c)
The snout of a gastropod mollusk.
(d)
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
5.
(Bot.) Same as Rostellum.
6.
(Old Chem.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
7.
(Surg.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. (Obs.)





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"Rostrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... natural amphitheater in the beautiful pine-woods. Here was a little hollow, clear of trees which served admirably well as an auditorium, and a bank at one end, leveled down with very little artifice, made a spacious stage, or, if required, a suitable rostrum. Here we had plays worth seeing and concerts worth hearing. Here, too, Sunday services were sometimes held, to the scandalizing of our Puritan neighbors, though when Dr. Channing preached a saintly ...
— My Friends at Brook Farm • John Van Der Zee Sears
... in the case of Marc Antoine Jullien how quick Carrier could be to take a cue. In a coach he followed the tumbril that bore Robespierre to execution, radiant of countenance and shouting with the loudest, "Death to the traitor!" On the morrow from the rostrum of the Convention, he passionately represented himself as a victim of the fallen tyrant, cleverly turning to his own credit the Marc Antoine affair, reminding the Convention how he had himself been denounced ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... were touched by the pleading of the orator and were decided on acquittal, they said to the defending advocate, "Cease speaking, descend from the rostrum." ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... terror that Themistocles had excited in a prime minister; and the avidity with which a prelate had endeavoured to profit by my theological talents. How certainly and how soon could I bring these talents into notice! How easy the task! I need but mount the rostrum, I need but put pen to paper, and my adversaries would be brought to shame, and mankind taught to do me justice. Incontrovertible facts were in my favour; and to foster doubts and fears would be cowardice, self-desertion, and ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft


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