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

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

d also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.