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A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. Rambler.

to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.

Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.

Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

A speaker; an orator. [Obs.] Shak.

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.

minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

ence, 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.

To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down. Macaulay. To scrape acquaintance, to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction. Farquhar. He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously. G. W. Cab…

Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.

erson, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expe…

A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly- settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]

To produce; to bring forth. [R.] That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one. Shak.

Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also tonguey.] [Colloq.]

s. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown. [Eng.] -- Treasury lord. See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer. [Eng.] -- Treasury not…

Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed.