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Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.

Robbed; borrowed. Temple rubato. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash. Brande & C.

A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.

for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley.

The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life. The sands are numbered that make up my life. Shak.

Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.

rocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. Burke. Sardonic grin or laugh, an old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.

A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. Halliwell.

A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. [He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

f the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment. [Cant]

A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.

A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.

One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.