English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Beady
(a.)
Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
Beady
(a.)
Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
Beady
(a.)
Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
Beagle
(n.)
A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches
high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in
Appendix.
Beagle
(n.)
Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.
Beak
(n.)
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of
a bivalve.
Beak
(n.)
A magistrate or policeman.
Beak
(n.)
A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
Beak
(n.)
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the
fruit or other parts of a plant.
Beak
(n.)
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow
fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
Beak
(n.)
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened
to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
Beak
(n.)
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.
Beak
(n.)
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the
canal.
Beak
(n.)
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.
Beak
(n.)
A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
Beak
(n.)
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other
invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
Beak
(n.)
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a
promontory of land.
Beaked
(a.)
Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
Beaked
(a.)
Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Beaker
(n.)
An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip
for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.