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from which tiie edition of J. C. Wolf, of Hamburgh, was pub¬ 
lished, Amst. 1738, fol. It was through Rostgaard’s exer¬ 
tions that the “ Fragmentum Theotiscum Isidosi Hispalensis” 
was brought to light, and published in the second volume of 
the Danish Bibliotheque. He wrote likewise a great many 
Latin and Danish poems, and was employed for several years 
on a Danish Lexicon, as well as in collecting rare Arabic and 
Greek manuscripts and heraldic documents relating to the 
Danish nobility. Jens Worm. 
ROST, a term used by the miners at Chremnitz, to ex¬ 
press the ore of gold after it has been washed and powdered, 
and melted first with lime stone, and afterwards burnt with 
charcoal alone. 
ROSTAIC, a city of Ommon, in Arabia, the residence of 
the Imam, though all the intercourse with Europeans is car¬ 
ried on by the port of Maskat. It stands at some distance 
from the sea, near Jebel Akdar, the largest and highest 
mountain in Ommon, and distinguished for its fertility in 
fruits, especially grapes-; 70 mile* west of Maskat. 
ROSTAC, a village of Laristan, in Persia: 70 miles south 
of Lar. 
ROST AN, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Damas¬ 
cus ; 45 miles north-north-east of Damascus. 
ROSTHERN, a parish of England, in Cheshire; 3§ miles 
north-by-west of Nether ICnutsford. 
ROSTINO, a small town of Corsica, a little to the north¬ 
east of Bastia. 
ROSTOCK, a large town of the north of Germany, in 
the grand-duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, situated on the 
river Warrow, eight miles from its mouth. It is surrounded 
with old fortifications, has three suburbs, and is divided info 
three parts, the old, middle, and new towns, but the whole 
is built in an old fashioned style. It is the largest place of 
the grand duchy, containing nearly 13,000 inhabitants, and 
is the seat of the highest ecclesiastical and civil courts. It is 
also the only seaport of consequence in the states of the 
grand duke, and has long enjoyed certain immunities, hav¬ 
ing been a member of the Hanseatic confederacy. Its vessels 
Lear the flag, not of Mecklenburg, but of Rostock ; and ap¬ 
peals in certain law-suits are carried before the chamber of 
Lubeck. This town contains a grand ducal mansion, and a 
university on a small scale, the number of students varying 
from 160 to 180, but that of professors exceeding 2(X Here 
is a museum, a botanical garden, a public library, and a se¬ 
minary for educating country teachers and clergymen. Here 
is also a poor-house and a Lutheran convent. 
The trade,of Rostock is carried on chiefly with Holland, 
England, and the seaports of the Baltic. Its chief export is 
corn ; its imports, more varied, consist of sugar, rum, coffee, 
tobacco, and bay-salt; the latter in large quantities. Small 
vessels, drawing only eight feet of water, are enabled to come 
up to the town : those of larger size unload at Warnemunde 
(the mouth of the Warnow), where there is very good an¬ 
chorage. The annual number of arrivals, great and small, 
is about 600 sail; the value of the exports from 150,000/. to 
200,000/. Rostock has various manufactures on a small 
scale, viz, canvas, linen, ships’•anchors, soap, vinegar ; also 
some breweries, distilleries, and sugar refineries. From its 
exposed situation, it was repeatedly occupied by hostile 
tioops in the course of the 18th century, but fortunately 
without standing a siege. It was the’ birth-place of Marshal 
Blucher, and is 40 miles west-south-west of Stralsund. 
ROSTORF, a large village in the south of Hanover, pro¬ 
vince of Gottingen; 3 miles south-west of Gottingen, 
ROSTOV, a town of the central part of European Russia 
in the government of Jaroslav, on a beautiful lake called 
Nero. It is a straggling place, is divided into the town and 
the suburb, and is above five miles in circumference; but 
the number of inhabitants does not much exceed 5000. It 
contains an ancient and richly ornamented cathedral, an ar- 
chiepiscopal mansion, a seminary, and five churches. Some 
of its traders carry on an intercourse with Astracan, Moscow, 
and St. Petersburg. Of the lower classes, a number are gar¬ 
deners, and some of them are known to go to Poland for 
employment; 40 miles south-south-west of Jaroslav, 
R O S 
ROSTOV, a fortified town of the south-east of Europedtr 
Russia, on the Don, between Azov and Tscherkask. The 
inhabitants are a mixture of Russians, Don Cossacks, and 
Greeks. 
RO'STRAL, adj. [from rostrum, Lat. “ rostrate co¬ 
rona,” a garland given to a captain for a victory at sea.] 
Having some resemblance to a beak of a ship, or rostrum.— 
Commerce wore a rostral crown upon her head, and kept 
her eyes fixed on a compass. Tat.ler. 
RO'STRATED, adj. [rostratus, Lat.] Adorned with 
the beaks of ships.—He brought to Italy an hundred and 
ten rostrated galleys of the fleet of Mithridates. Arbuthnot. 
ROSTRENEN, a small town in the north-west of France, 
in Brittany, department of the Cotes du Nord, near the river 
Blavet. The neighbouring country contains good pastures. 
Population 1500; 25 miles south-south-west of Guingamp, 
and 33 south-west ,of St. Brieux. 
IlO'STRUM, s. [I.at.] The beak of a bird; the beak of 
a ship; the scaffold whence orators harangued.—Vespasian 
erected a column in Rome, upon whose top was the prow 
of a ship, in Latin rostrum, which gave name to the com¬ 
mon pleading place in Rome, where orations were made, 
being built of the prows of those ships of Antium, which the 
Romans overthrew'. Peackam. 
Myself shall mount the rostrum in his favour, 
And strive to gain his pardon from the people. Addison. 
The pipe which conveys the distilling liquor info its re¬ 
ceiver in the common alembicks; also a crooked scissors', 
which the surgeons use in some cases for the dilatation of 
wounds. Quincy. 
ROSWEIDE (Heribert), a learned Dutch Jesuit, and 
voluminous writer in ecclesiastical antiquities, was born at 
Utrecht, in the year 1569. He entered among the disciples 
of Loyola, at Doway in Flanders, when he was tw’enty 
years of age, and soon discovered the subjects of study pecu¬ 
liarly adapted to his genius, by spending the time which he 
was allowed to devote to exercise and recreation, in examin¬ 
ing the libraries of the monasteries in that city, and rescuing 
the ancient manuscripts deposited in them from dust and obli¬ 
vion. His days were shortened by a malignant fever, caught 
from a person whom he charitably attended on his death¬ 
bed, which carried him off in the year 1629, at the age of 
60. He published “ Fasti sanctorum quorum Vitae in Bei- 
gicis Bibliothecis Manuscriptae asservantur;” “ Notationes 
in Vetus Martyrologium hactenus desideratum a Baronio, et 
aliis,” 1613, folio; “ Martyrologium, Adonis, Archiepiseopi 
Viennensis, &c.” of the same date, which was reprinted at 
Paris in 1645, and at Rome in 1745, in 2 vols. folio ; “Vitae 
Patrurn, seu, de Vita et Verbis seniorum Lib. X. Historiarum 
Heremeticam complectentes, &c.;” “ Vindiciae Kempenses,” 
1717, 12mo., in support of the claims of Thomas a Kernpis 
to the celebrated book, “ De Imitatione.Christi;” “Joannes 
Buschius de Origine Csenobii, et Capituli Windeshinnensis,” 
1621, 8vo.; “ D. Paulini Episcopi Nolani Opera, notis illus- 
trata,” 1622, 8vo.; some controversial pieces against Isaac 
Casaubon, in defence of Baronius, and against Joseph Sca- 
liger, in defence of Justus Lipsius; together with the follow¬ 
ing works in the dialect of the Low-Countries: “ The Lives 
of the Saints,” 1619, folio,'and in subsequent editions en¬ 
larged into 2 vols.; “ An account of the Hermits of Egypt 
and Palestine,” 1619, 4to.; “An Ecclesiastical History from 
the Time of Christ to Pope Urban VIII.,” 1623, in 2 vols. 
folio; “ The history of the Belgic Church,” of the same date, 
in folio, &c. Sotoelli Bibl. Script. Soc. Moreri. 
ROSY, adj. [ roseus, Lat.] Resembling a rose in bloom, 
beauty, colour or fragrance. 
A smile that glow’d 
Coelestial rosy-red, love’s proper hue. ' Milton. 
Made in the form of a rose. 
His cloak with orient velvet quite lined through, 
His rosy ties and garters so o’erblown. B. Jonson. 
ROSYCRUSIANS, Rosacrucians, or Brothers of the 
Bosy-cross, a name assumed by a sect or cabal of hermetical 
philosophers. 
