Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of beak is as below...

Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..

Armed :: Armed (a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey..

Peck :: Peck (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree..

Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..

Pinefinch :: Pinefinch (n.) The pine grosbeak.

Promerops :: Promerops (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail..

Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..

Allerion :: Allerion (n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings..

Erostrate :: Erostrate (a.) Without a beak.

Spot :: Spot (n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.

Beak :: 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.

Shoebill :: Shoebill (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak..

Rook :: 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..

Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

Beaker :: Beaker (n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard..

Toucan :: Toucan (n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast..

Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

Random Fonts

Most Popular