Definition of beak

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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.

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Snipe :: Snipe (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak..
Doegling :: Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained..
Crossbeak :: Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.
Dentirostral :: Dentirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak..
Beakhead :: Beakhead (n.) Same as Beak, 3..
Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..
Kingfisher :: Kingfisher (n.) Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles, insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant in the East Indies..
Bickern :: Bickern (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself..
Tetrodon :: Tetrodon (n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth..
Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.
Nib :: Nib (n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
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..
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..
Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..
Beak :: Beak (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee..
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The beak or head of a ship.
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..
Grenadier :: Grenadier (n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black..
Beak :: Beak (n.) A magistrate or policeman.
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