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Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

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

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

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrik…

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle…

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The…

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. Se…

The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.

A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defend…

The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.

Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; --…