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See Roust. [Scot.] Jemieson.

same as Rostellum.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

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

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.

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.

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

the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

After the manner of an acrostic.

A balloon.

Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.