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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Beakhead :: Beakhead (n.) Same as Beak, 3..
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..
Cere :: Cere (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak..
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
Rostrulum :: Rostrulum (n.) A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect..
Clip :: Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak..
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..
Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
Bird''s-beak :: Bird's-beak (n.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
Armed :: Armed (a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey..
Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Beaker :: Beaker (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat..
Beak :: Beak (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land..
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.
Potamian :: Potamian (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx..
Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.
Rectirostral :: Rectirostral (a.) Having a straight beak.
Bickern :: Bickern (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself..
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