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Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..

Motmot :: Motmot (n.) Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note..

Recurvirostral :: Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.

Sue :: Sue (v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk..

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

Beak :: Beak (n.) A magistrate or policeman.

Apposed :: Apposed (a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some bird.

Rostrulum :: Rostrulum (n.) A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect..

Martlet :: Martlet (n.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.

Crossbeak :: Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.

Openbill :: Openbill (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak..

Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument..

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

Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..

Mandible :: 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..

Recurviroster :: Recurviroster (n.) A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet..

Chelonia :: Chelonia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix..

Longbeak :: Longbeak (n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.

Nose :: Nose (n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle..

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