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Beak

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
2.NounA rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
3.NounA similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
4.NounThe long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
5.NounThe upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
6.NounThe prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
7.NounAny process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
8.NounAnything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. A toe clip. That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
9.NounAnything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
10.NounA continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
11.NounA toe clip.
12.NounThat part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
13.NounA beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy.
14.NounAny of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
15.NounA person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
"Shut your beak!"
16.NounA person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
17.NounA person's mouth.
"Shut your beak!"
18.NounCocaine.
19.VerbTo strike with the beak.
20.VerbTo seize with the beak.
21.VerbTo play truant.
22.NounA justice of the peace; a magistrate.
23.NounA schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
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