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- Beak - n. - The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
- Beak - n. - A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
- Beak - n. - The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- Beak - n. - The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- Beak - n. - The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- Beak - n. - Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
- Beak - n. - A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
- Beak - n. - That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- Beak - n. - A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- Beak - n. - Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- Beak - n. - A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
- Beak - n. - A magistrate or policeman.
- Beaked - a. - Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
- Beaked - a. - Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
- Beaker - n. - A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
- Beaker - n. - An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
- Beakhead - n. - An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
- Beakhead - n. - A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
- Beakhead - n. - Same as Beak, 3.
- Beakiron - n. - A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
- Horn - n. - Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
- Martlet - n. - A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.
- Beak - n. - Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- Peck - n. - A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
- Beaked - a. - Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
- Lunule - n. - A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve.
- Rostrum - n. - The beak or head of a ship.
- Escutcheon - n. - The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
- Nail - n. - The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- Rostrated - a. - Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
- Allerion - n. - Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
- Recurvirostral - a. - Having the beak bent upwards.
- Crane's-bill - n. - The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.
- Rostrum - n. - Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- Aquiline - a. - Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose
- Mandible - n. - The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
- Nib - n. - The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- Bickern - n. - An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
- Beard - n. - The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
- Flute a bec - - A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
- Cope - v. t. - To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
- Epithema - n. - A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
- Gill - n. - The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- Coronoid - a. - Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.
- Rook - n. - A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.