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- Rostrum - n. - The beak or head of a ship.
- Rostrum - n. - 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. - Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
- Rostrum - n. - Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- Rostrum - n. - The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- Rostrum - n. - The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
- Rostrum - n. - The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- Rostrum - n. - Same as Rostellum.
- Rostrum - n. - The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- Rostrum - n. - A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
- Rostrums - pl. - of Rostrum
- Sounding-board - n. - A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
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- G968 βῆμα - 968 βῆμα - ΒῆΜΑ - - bēma - bay'-ma - from the base of βάσις; a step, i.e. foot-breath; by implication, a rostrum, i.e. a tribunal:--judgment-seat, set (foot) on, throne. - Noun Neuter - greek
- H4026 מִגְדָּל - 4026 מִגְדָּל - מִגְדָּל - - migdâl - mig-dawl' - also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה; from גָּדַל; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers; castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following. - Noun Masculine - heb