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Having a straight beak.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

ually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard.

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. [Written also avocette.]

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,; Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. Shak.

to make a display. [Colloq.] -- To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble, [Obs] "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to c…

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

A dentirostral bird.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak.

Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. Milton.