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See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

lated genera, especially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

The nether part of the beak of a hawk. Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n. -- Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.

eshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.

of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinæ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc.…

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.

Shaped like a crow's beak.

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. [Written also corvorant.]

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.