English English Dictionary

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.

A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

Same as Beak, 3.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

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The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

To emit beams of light.

To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.

A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.

A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.

The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.