Definition of beak

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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..

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Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..
Recurviroster :: Recurviroster (n.) A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet..
Armed :: Armed (a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey..
Beak :: Beak (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant..
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Rostriform :: Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.
Allerion :: Allerion (n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings..
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..
Beak :: Beak (n.) A magistrate or policeman.
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..
Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..
Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..
Turbit :: Turbit (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak..
Latirostrous :: Latirostrous (a.) Having a broad beak.
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..
Rostellate :: Rostellate (a.) Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak..
Beaker :: Beaker (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat..
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..
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