Usually means: Bird's external protruding mouth part.
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  1. beak: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beak, beak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beak: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beak, beak: Wordnik
  7. beak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beak: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. beak: Wiktionary
  10. beak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. beak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. beak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Beak, beak: Dictionary.com
  14. beak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. beak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Beak (Album), Beak (album), Beak (band), Beak (bivalve), Beak (disambiguation), Beak, The Beak (Phineas and Ferb): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Beak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. beak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. beak: Rhymezone
  20. beak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. beak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Beak: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. beak: Free Dictionary
  24. beak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. beak: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. beak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beak: Legal dictionary
  2. beak: Financial dictionary

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  1. beak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. beak: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BEAK: Acronym Finder

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. beak: Mussel Glossary
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Biological Control (No longer online)
  5. Beak: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  6. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beak, beak, beak, beak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Beak, beak: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Beak: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy)
noun:  A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
noun:  A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
noun:  The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
noun:  The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
noun:  The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
noun:  (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
noun:  (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
noun:  (farriery) A toe clip.
noun:  (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
noun:  (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
noun:  (slang)
noun:  A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
noun:  (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
noun:  (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with the beak.
verb:  (transitive) To seize with the beak.
verb:  (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
noun:  (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
noun:  (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).

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