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Rostrum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The beak or bill of a bird.

2. The beak or head of a ship.

3. In ancient Rome, a scaffold or elevated place in the forum, where orations, pleadings funeral harangues, etc., were delivered.

4. The pipe which conveys the distilling liquor into its receiver, in the common alembic.

5. A crooked pair of scissors, used by surgeons for dilating wounds.

Rostrum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The beak or head of a ship.

2. The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.

3. Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.

4. Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.

5. The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.

6. The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.

7. The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.

8. Same as Rostellum.

9. The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.

10. A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.

Rostrums [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Front Roget’s Thesaurus §234

N. front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse, fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut*, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy

V. be in front, stand in front, front, face, confront, bend forwards, come to the front, come to the fore

Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal

Adv. before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front

Phr. formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, "human face divine", imago animi vultus est indices oculi, "sea of upturned faces"

School Roget’s Thesaurus §542

N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, lyceum, institute, institution, palaestra, gymnasium, class, seminar, day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, board school, denominational school, national school, british and foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, county council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school, school of art, kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory, pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune, school book, horn book, text book, grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum, encyclopedia, cyclopedia, lindley murray, cocker, dictionary, lexicon, professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship, chair, school board council of education, board of education, board of studies, prefect of studies, textbook committee, propaganda

Adj. scholastic, academic, collegiate, educational

Adv. ex cathedra