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rostra
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- rečnícke tribúny |
rostra
(encz) | rostra,řečnická tribuna n: Zdeněk Brož |
Rostra
(gcide) | Rostra \Ros"tra\, n. pl.
See Rostrum, 2.
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Rostra
(gcide) | Rostrum \Ros"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), n.; pl. L. Rostra, E.
Rostrums. [L., beak, ship's beak, fr. rodere, rosum, to
gnaw. See Rodent.]
1. The beak or head of a ship.
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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.
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3. Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform
occupied by an orator or public speaker.
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Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor.
--Addison.
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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. See Illust. of
Littorina.
(d) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the
carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the
prawn.
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5. (Bot.) Same as Rostellum.
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6. (Old Chem.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into
its receiver in the common alembic. --Quincy.
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7. (Surg.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a
beaklike form. [Obs.] --Coxe.
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cirrostratus
(encz) | cirrostratus,cirostratus Zdeněk Brož |
cirrostratus cloud
(encz) | cirrostratus cloud, n: |
heat prostration
(encz) | heat prostration, n: |
heterostracan
(encz) | heterostracan, n: |
nervous prostration
(encz) | nervous prostration, n: |
prostrate
(encz) | prostrate,přemoci n: pl. Zdeněk Brožprostrate,svalit v: Zdeněk Brož |
prostrated
(encz) | prostrated,přemohl Jaroslav Šedivýprostrated,svalený adj: Zdeněk Brožprostrated,svalil v: Zdeněk Brožprostrated,vyčerpal Jaroslav Šedivý |
prostrating
(encz) | prostrating, |
prostration
(encz) | prostration,úpadek n: Zdeněk Brožprostration,vyčerpání n: Zdeněk Brož |
rostrate
(encz) | rostrate, adj: |
suborder heterostraci
(encz) | suborder Heterostraci, n: |
cirostratus
(czen) | cirostratus,cirrostratus Zdeněk Brož |
prostranství
(czen) | prostranství,area sweet128prostranství,open spacen: prostranství,placen: Zdeněk Brožprostranství,spacen: |
Arthrostraca
(gcide) | Arthrostraca \Ar*thros"tra*ca\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'a`rqron
joint + ? a shell.] (Zool.)
One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because
the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It
includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.
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Balaenoptera rostrata
(gcide) | Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. &
v., Peak, Pique.]
1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long
wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is
now superseded by the bayonet.
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2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
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5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
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6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
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8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox
lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a
food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and
jack.
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Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and
yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the
wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
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Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye,
and Sauger.
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in
directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic
(Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; --
called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish
(a) .
[1913 Webster]Doegling \D[oe]g"ling\, n. [Native name in Faroe Islands.]
(Zool.)
The beaked whale (Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), from which
d[oe]gling oil is obtained.
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Birostrate
(gcide) | Birostrate \Bi*ros`trate\, Birostrated \Bi*ros"tra*ted\, a.
[Pref. bi- + rostrate.]
Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
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The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. --Ed. Encyc.
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Birostrated
(gcide) | Birostrate \Bi*ros`trate\, Birostrated \Bi*ros"tra*ted\, a.
[Pref. bi- + rostrate.]
Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
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The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. --Ed. Encyc.
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Brevirostral
(gcide) | Brevirostral \Brev`i*ros"tral\, Brevirostrate
\Brev`i*ros"trate\, a. [L. brevis short + E. rostral, rostrate.]
(Zool.)
Short-billed; having a short beak.
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Brevirostrate
(gcide) | Brevirostral \Brev`i*ros"tral\, Brevirostrate
\Brev`i*ros"trate\, a. [L. brevis short + E. rostral, rostrate.]
(Zool.)
Short-billed; having a short beak.
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Chaetodon rostratus
(gcide) | Archer fish \Arch"er fish`\ (Zool.)
A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so
called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its
prey. The name is also applied to Ch[ae]todon rostratus.
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Cirro-stratus
(gcide) | Cirro-stratus \Cir`ro-stra"tus\, n. [Cirrus + stratus.]
(Meteor.)
See under Cloud.
[1913 Webster]Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), n. [Prob. fr. AS. cl[=u]d a rock or
hillock, the application arising from the frequent
resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or
air.]
1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles,
suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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Note: A classification of clouds according to their chief
forms was first proposed by the meteorologist Howard,
and this is still substantially employed. The following
varieties and subvarieties are recognized:
(a) Cirrus. This is the most elevated of all the forms
of clouds; is thin, long-drawn, sometimes looking like
carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or room,
sometimes in curl-like or fleecelike patches. It is
the cat's-tail of the sailor, and the mare's-tail of
the landsman.
(b) Cumulus. This form appears in large masses of a
hemispherical form, or nearly so, above, but flat
below, one often piled above another, forming great
clouds, common in the summer, and presenting the
appearance of gigantic mountains crowned with snow. It
often affords rain and thunder gusts.
(c) Stratus. This form appears in layers or bands
extending horizontally.
(d) Nimbus. This form is characterized by its uniform
gray tint and ragged edges; it covers the sky in
seasons of continued rain, as in easterly storms, and
is the proper rain cloud. The name is sometimes used
to denote a raining cumulus, or cumulostratus.
(e) Cirro-cumulus. This form consists, like the cirrus,
of thin, broken, fleecelice clouds, but the parts are
more or less rounded and regulary grouped. It is
popularly called mackerel sky.
(f) Cirro-stratus. In this form the patches of cirrus
coalesce in long strata, between cirrus and stratus.
(g) Cumulo-stratus. A form between cumulus and stratus,
often assuming at the horizon a black or bluish tint.
-- Fog, cloud, motionless, or nearly so, lying near
or in contact with the earth's surface. -- {Storm
scud}, cloud lying quite low, without form, and driven
rapidly with the wind.
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2. A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling
vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." --Ezek. viii. 11.
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3. A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble;
hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's
reputation; a cloud on a title.
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4. That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect;
that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or
depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud
upon the intellect.
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5. A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. "So great a
cloud of witnesses." --Heb. xii. 1.
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6. A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the
head.
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Cloud on a (or the) title (Law), a defect of title,
usually superficial and capable of removal by release,
decision in equity, or legislation.
To be under a cloud, to be under suspicion or in disgrace;
to be in disfavor.
In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond
reason; visionary.
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Conirostral
(gcide) | Conirostral \Co`ni*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
Belonging to the Conirostres.
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Corylus rostrata
(gcide) | Hazel \Ha"zel\ (h[=a]"z'l), n. [OE. hasel, AS. h[ae]sel; akin to
D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan &
Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as
the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel
of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American
species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common
hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert. --Gray.
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2. A miner's name for freestone. --Raymond.
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Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse (Zool.), a European grouse ({Bonasa
betulina}), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
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Cultirostral
(gcide) | Cultirostral \Cul`ti*ros"tral\ (-t?-r?s"tral), a. [See
Cultirostres.] (Zool.)
Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a
knife, as the heron, stork, etc.
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Cumu-cirro-stratus
(gcide) | Cumu-cirro-stratus \Cu"mu-cir`ro-stra"tus\
(k?`m?-s?r`r?-str?"t?s), n. (Meteor.)
Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
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Curvirostral
(gcide) | Curvirostral \Cur`vi*ros"tral\ (-r?s"tral), a. [L. curvus + E.
rostral.] (Zool.)
Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
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Dentirostral
(gcide) | Dentirostral \Den`ti*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine
birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on
insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under
Beak.
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Dentirostrate
(gcide) | Dentirostrate \Den`ti*ros"trate\, a.
Dentirostral.
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Deprostrate
(gcide) | Deprostrate \De*pros"trate\, a.
Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.]
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How may weak mortal ever hope to file
His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. --G.
Fletcher.
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Erostrate
(gcide) | Erostrate \E*ros"trate\, a. [Pref. e- out + rostrate.] (Bot.)
Without a beak.
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Fissirostral
(gcide) | Fissirostral \Fis`si*ros"tral\, a. [Cf. F. fissirostre.] (Zool.)
Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case
of swallows and goatsuckers.
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Heterostichus rostratus
(gcide) | Kelpfish \Kelp"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus),
living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the
genus Platyglossus. Kelpie |
Lamellirostral
(gcide) | Lamellirostral \Lam`el*li*ros"tral\, a. [Lamella + rostral : cf.
F. lamellirostre.] (Zool.)
Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.
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Latirostral
(gcide) | Latirostral \Lat`i*ros"tral\, Latirostrous \Lat`i*ros"trous\, a.
[Cf. F. latirostre. See Latirostres.] (Zool.)
Having a broad beak. --Sir T. Browne.
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Longirostral
(gcide) | Longirostral \Lon`gi*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
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Pressirostral
(gcide) | Pressirostral \Pres`si*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
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Prostrate
(gcide) | Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr.
& vb. n. Prostrating.]
1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to
prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
--Evelyn.
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2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of
efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to
prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
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3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration;
to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,
he prostrated himself. --Milman.
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4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to
reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
[1913 Webster]Prostrate \Pros"trate\, a. [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere
to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out,
throw down. See Stratum.]
1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground
or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
--Elyot.
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Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.
--Milton.
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2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. --Dryden.
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3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
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Prostrate fall
Before him reverent, and there confess
Humbly our faults. --Milton.
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4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
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Prostrated
(gcide) | Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr.
& vb. n. Prostrating.]
1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to
prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
--Evelyn.
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2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of
efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to
prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
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3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration;
to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,
he prostrated himself. --Milman.
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4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to
reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
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Prostrating
(gcide) | Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr.
& vb. n. Prostrating.]
1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to
prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
--Evelyn.
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2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of
efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to
prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
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3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration;
to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,
he prostrated himself. --Milman.
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4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to
reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
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Prostration
(gcide) | Prostration \Pros*tra"tion\, n. [L. prostratio: cf. F.
prostration.]
1. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as,
the prostration of the body.
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2. The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or
adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but
usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and
worship.
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A greater prostration of reason than of body.
--Shak.
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3. The condition of being prostrate; great depression;
lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. "A sudden
prostration of strength." --Arbuthnot.
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4. (Med.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital
energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
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Note: Prostration, in its medical use, is analogous to the
state of a spring lying under such a weight that it is
incapable of action; while exhaustion is analogous to
the state of a spring deprived of its elastic powers.
The word, however, is often used to denote any great
depression of the vital powers.
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Rectirostral
(gcide) | Rectirostral \Rec`ti*ros"tral\ (r?k`t?*r?s"tral), a. [Recti- +
rostral.] (Zool.)
Having a straight beak.
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Recurvirostra Americana
(gcide) | Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([a^]v"[-o]*s[e^]t), n. [F.
avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zool.)
A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the
scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The
American species is Recurvirostra Americana. [Written also
avocette.]
[1913 Webster]Bluestocking \Blue"stock`ing\, n.
1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]
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Note: As explained in Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson", this
term is derived from the name given to certain meetings
held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation
with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant
of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always
wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for
his conversational powers that his absence at any time
was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became
common, "We can do nothing without the blue stockings."
Hence these meetings were sportively called
bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them,
bluestockings.
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2. (Zool.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
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Recurvirostral
(gcide) | Recurvirostral \Re*cur`vi*ros"tral\ (-tral), a. [See
Recurviroster.] (Zool.)
Having the beak bent upwards.
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Rostra
(gcide) | Rostra \Ros"tra\, n. pl.
See Rostrum, 2.
[1913 Webster]Rostrum \Ros"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), n.; pl. L. Rostra, E.
Rostrums. [L., beak, ship's beak, fr. rodere, rosum, to
gnaw. See Rodent.]
1. The beak or head of a ship.
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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.
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3. Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform
occupied by an orator or public speaker.
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Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor.
--Addison.
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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. See Illust. of
Littorina.
(d) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the
carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the
prawn.
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5. (Bot.) Same as Rostellum.
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6. (Old Chem.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into
its receiver in the common alembic. --Quincy.
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7. (Surg.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a
beaklike form. [Obs.] --Coxe.
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Rostral
(gcide) | Rostral \Ros"tral\, a. [L. rostralis, fr. rostrum a beak; cf. F.
rostral.]
Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the
beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at
Rome, or their decorations.
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[Monuments] adorned with rostral crowns and naval
ornaments. --Addison.
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Rostrate
(gcide) | Rostrate \Ros"trate\, Rostrated \Ros"tra*ted\, a. [L. rostratus,
fr. rostrum a beak. See Rostrum.]
1. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked;
rostellate.
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2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
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Rostrated
(gcide) | Rostrate \Ros"trate\, Rostrated \Ros"tra*ted\, a. [L. rostratus,
fr. rostrum a beak. See Rostrum.]
1. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked;
rostellate.
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2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
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Serratirostral
(gcide) | Serratirostral \Ser*ra`ti*ros"tral\, a. [Serrate + rostral.]
(Zool.)
Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.
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Tarsipes rostratus
(gcide) | Tait \Tait\, n. (Zool.)
A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial
(Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a
long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds
upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
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Tenuirostral
(gcide) | Tenuirostral \Ten`u*i*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the
humming birds.
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balaenoptera acutorostrata
(wn) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata
n 1: small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
[syn: lesser rorqual, piked whale, minke whale,
Balaenoptera acutorostrata] |
cirrostratus
(wn) | cirrostratus
n 1: a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude [syn:
cirrostratus, cirrostratus cloud] |
cirrostratus cloud
(wn) | cirrostratus cloud
n 1: a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude [syn:
cirrostratus, cirrostratus cloud] |
eucalyptus rostrata
(wn) | Eucalyptus rostrata
n 1: somewhat crooked red gum tree growing chiefly along rivers;
has durable reddish lumber used in heavy construction [syn:
river red gum, river gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis,
Eucalyptus rostrata] |
genus recurvirostra
(wn) | genus Recurvirostra
n 1: type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets [syn:
Recurvirostra, genus Recurvirostra] |
heat prostration
(wn) | heat prostration
n 1: a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness
caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes [syn:
heat exhaustion, heat prostration] |
heterostracan
(wn) | heterostracan
n 1: extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body
covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian |
heterostraci
(wn) | Heterostraci
n 1: extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like
vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear [syn: Heterostraci,
suborder Heterostraci] |
kennedia prostrata
(wn) | Kennedia prostrata
n 1: hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with
bright scarlet-pink flowers [syn: scarlet runner,
running postman, Kennedia prostrata] |
loxia curvirostra
(wn) | Loxia curvirostra
n 1: finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed [syn:
crossbill, Loxia curvirostra] |
nervous prostration
(wn) | nervous prostration
n 1: an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable
to work [syn: nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration] |
prostrate
(wn) | prostrate
adj 1: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat,
prostrate]
2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
v 1: get into a prostrate position, as in submission [syn:
prostrate, bow down]
2: render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
3: throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself
with frustration" |
prostration
(wn) | prostration
n 1: an abrupt failure of function or complete physical
exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his
men" [syn: collapse, prostration]
2: abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating
your body
3: the act of assuming a prostrate position |
recurvirostra
(wn) | Recurvirostra
n 1: type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets [syn:
Recurvirostra, genus Recurvirostra] |
rostrate
(wn) | rostrate
adj 1: having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis |
semi-prostrate
(wn) | semi-prostrate
adj 1: imperfectly prostrate; prostrate for part of its length;
"the semi-prostrate evergreen, purple heather" |
solanum rostratum
(wn) | Solanum rostratum
n 1: North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose
yellow flowers [syn: buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum] |
suborder heterostraci
(wn) | suborder Heterostraci
n 1: extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like
vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear [syn: Heterostraci,
suborder Heterostraci] |
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