Definition of beak

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Beak (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera..

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Sifter :: Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak..
Gonydial :: Gonydial (a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.
Rhyncholite :: Rhyncholite (n.) A fossil cephalopod beak.
Pinefinch :: Pinefinch (n.) The pine grosbeak.
Toco :: Toco (n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..
Allerion :: Allerion (n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings..
Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
Latirostrous :: Latirostrous (a.) Having a broad beak.
Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
Doegling :: Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained..
Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..
Crossbeak :: Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.
Grosbeak :: Grosbeak (n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris..
Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..
Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Crossbill :: Crossbill (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak..
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds..
Armed :: Armed (a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey..
Xiphius :: Xiphius (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw..
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