BPage 101
- English Word Beak Definition That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- English Word Beak Definition A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- English Word Beak Definition Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- English Word Beak Definition A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
- English Word Beak Definition A magistrate or policeman.
- English Word Beaked Definition Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
- English Word Beaked Definition Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
- English Word Beaker Definition A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
- English Word Beaker Definition An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
- English Word Beakhead Definition An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
- English Word Beakhead Definition A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
- English Word Beakhead Definition Same as Beak, 3.
- English Word Beakiron Definition A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
- English Word Beal Definition To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
- English Word Bealed Definition of Beal
- English Word Bealing Definition of Beal
- English Word Beam Definition Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- English Word Beam Definition One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
- English Word Beam Definition The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
- English Word Beam Definition The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.