Crossword clues for rostrums
rostrums
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rostrum \Ros"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), n.; pl. L. Rostra, E. Rostrums. [L., beak, ship's beak, fr. rodere, rosum, to gnaw. See Rodent.]
The beak or head of a ship.
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.
-
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.
--Addison. -
(Zo["o]l.)
Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
(Bot.) Same as Rostellum.
(Old Chem.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
--Quincy.(Surg.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. [Obs.]
--Coxe.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of rostrum English)
Usage examples of "rostrums".
I must answer in the negative, and I hope that you too, you who are not inmates of mental hospitals, will regard me as nothing more than an eccentric who, for private and what is more esthetic reasons, though to be sure the advice of Bebra my mentor had something to do with it, rejected the cut and color of the uniforms, the rhythm and tone of the music normally played on rostrums, and therefore drummed up a bit of protest on an instrument that was a mere toy.
They will build rostrums and fill them, and down from the rostrums they will preach our destruction.
The political events of the ensuing years bore him out: the era of torchlight processions and parades past rostrums and reviewing stands had begun.
For several years, until November, '38, to be exact, my drum and I spent a good bit of our time huddling under rostrums, observing successful or not so successful demonstrations, breaking up rallies, driving orators to distraction, transforming marches and hymns into waltzes and fox trots.
It has become possible for me to see my drumming under rostrums in proper perspective, and it would never occur to me to set myself up as a resistance fighter because I disrupted six or seven rallies and threw three or four parades out of step with my drumming.
They watched longingly as the merchants set up their rostrums on their respective platforms.