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Same as Tyro.

Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

Having a straight beak.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.

An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc. My young soldier, put up your iron. Shak.

The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

ctile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.