English English Dictionary

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.

Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.

Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

A magistrate or policeman.

A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.

A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.

The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

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

An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.