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Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. Carew.

Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. "Each beaked promontory." Milton.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

Same as Crossbill.

One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

See Grosbeak.

Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.

A fish. See Hornfish.

The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an a…

Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey. Armed at all points (Blazoning), completely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-à-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutrali…

A bird of the family Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds