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Same as Beak, 3.
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The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
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Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
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Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
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Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
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Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
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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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A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
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A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
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A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
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Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
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Having the form of a beak.
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A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
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Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
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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.
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A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
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An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
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The beak or head of a ship.
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A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
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The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
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