beak
beek
- n beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
- n horny projecting mouth of a bird
- n a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures
- n informal terms for the nose
- v hit lightly with a picking motion
- It's true that this small, skinny woman with the prominent beak was not conventionally pretty; there are times in her very best films when she looks not just haggard but .
- And new clues: while the beak of Te Papa's specimen is around 42mm long, the longest ever found, discovered in the stomach of a sperm whale, was 49mm.
- Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly.