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UK
/bˈiːk/
]
[ US /ˈbik/ ]
[ US /ˈbik/ ]
NOUN
- informal terms for the nose
- beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
- a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
VERB
- hit lightly with a picking motion
How To Use beak In A Sentence
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- He sat like a king on a throne, his beaklike nose high in the air, introducing his wives. The Season of Risks
- When it was their turn to be served, the pharmacist gave them each a plastic beaker filled with liquid, which they greedily consumed.
- Also known as a ‘parrot lizard’ for its parrotlike beak, the herbivore was a strong, agile dinosaur that walked on its two hind legs.
- Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.) Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois?
- They get much of their food by chasing gulls and making them drop what they have in their beak, and one might see them doing this. Times, Sunday Times
- In contrast, a strongly obtuse apical angle is associated with an incurved ventral beak that is appressed to the dorsal umbo, resulting in the delthyrium being partly obscured.
- At the bar a leather-clad schoolboy was buying a pint of lager, served in a plastic beaker.
- Vassili roared in Fon and the daughter came in with a beaker of thin yoghurt which he poured down Selina's throat. BLOOD IS DIRT