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- English Word Rostrum Definition Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- English Word Rostrum Definition Same as Rostellum.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- English Word Rostrum Definition A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
- English Word Rostrums Definition of Rostrum
- English Word Rosulate Definition Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
- English Word Rosy Definition Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
- English Word Rot Definition To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
- English Word Rot Definition Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
- English Word Rot Definition To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
- English Word Rot Definition To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- English Word Rot Definition Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
- English Word Rot Definition A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
- English Word Rot Definition A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
- English Word Rota Definition An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
- English Word Rota Definition A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
- English Word Rota Definition A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.