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A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

See Rostrum, 2.

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. [Monuments] adorned with rostral crowns and naval ornaments. Addison.

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

Having the form of a beak.

A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.

g; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor. Addison.

The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.

A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

scophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

Same as Lamellirostres.

throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.