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| beak | |
| 1. n. Anatomical uses. |  |
| 2. n. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food. | |
| 3. n. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. | |
| 4. n. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. | |
| 5. n. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. | |
| 6. n. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. | |
| 7. n. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. | |
| 8. n. Figurative uses. | |
| 9. n. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. | |
| 10. n. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. | |
| 11. n. (farriery) A toe clip. | |
| 12. n. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. | |
| 13. n. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the | |
| 14. n. Colloquial uses. | |
| 15. n. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. | |
| 16. n. (slang) A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority. | |
| 17. v. Strike with the beak. | |
| 18. v. Seize with the beak. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant. | |
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