beakn.¹

Brit.

/biːk/, U.S.

/bik/

Forms: Middle English–1500s bec, Middle English bek, beke, Middle English–1500s beeke, 1500s becke (plural bex), 1500s–1600s beake, 1600s beack, 1600s–1700s beck, 1600s– beak.

Etymology: < French bec (= Italian becco, Provençal bec, Spanish bico, Portuguese bico < late Latin beccus), of Gaulish origin. Suetonius says ( Vitell. 18) that Antonius Primus, who was born at Toulouse, had as a boy the nickname of Beccus, ‘id valet, gallinacei rostrum.’ According to Thurneysen, probably related to the Celtic stem bacc- ‘hook’; but the modern Celtic words, Irish bec, Breton bek, beg, are ‘certainly borrowed’ from English and French. The original short vowel of French bec, Middle English bec, bek, was still retained in beck in the 18th cent., but the form beek, beak, with lengthened vowel, occurred in the plural at least, where it evidently originated (bek-es being made into be-kes, bē-kes, beekes, beaks; compare staff, staves) as early as 1400.

I. Original and allied senses.

a. The horny termination of the jaws of a bird, consisting of two pointed mandibles adapted for piercing and for taking firm hold: a bird's bill.

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill

nebeOE

billa1000

beakc1220

snoutc1380

nib1585

pecker1891

c1220 Bestiary 58 in Old Eng. Misc. 3 Siðen his bec is al to-wrong.

1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 395 But the nedy nestlingis..burnisched her beekis, and bent to himwardis.

1486 Bk. St. Albans A vj b Ye shall say this hauke has a large beke or a shortt beke, and call it not bille.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxi. 432 The Gryffon..was redy to dystroye hym with his becke and naylys.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 37 If peacocke & turkey, leaue iobbing their becks.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 212 His Royall Bird Prunes the immortall wing, and cloyes his Beake .

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 107 With Vultur's Becks, And Shoulders higher than their Necks.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 58/1 The Eagle..to attain his new beak, must harshly dash off the old one upon rocks.

b. birds of a beak (cf. ‘birds of a feather’; see a adj. 2).

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1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. C3^v Cut vp one, cut vp all, they were birds all of a beake.

c. transferred. The long snout of a fish.

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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > snout

beak1889

1889 in Cent. Dict.

1927 Observer 24 July 22 A 38-lb. cock-salmon... I was obliged to measure it, and I made it over 50 inches, from tail to beak.

2. The extremities, often horny in structure, of the mandibles of other animals; e.g. the turtle, ornithorhynchus, octopus, etc.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > snout > beak

billa1000

peakc1450

rostrum1677

beak1822

1822 Burrowes Cycl. at Sepia Their beak is like that of a parrot.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. at Ornithorhynchus The edge of the osseous beak.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §485 Tortoises..[have] the mouth destitute of teeth, but furnished with a horny beak.

1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy vi. 317 An octopus which..shoots its beak into a vital spot.

†3. The snout or muzzle of quadrupeds. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (parts) of foot > quadruped > parts of

master sinewa1400

palma1425

beak1567

pad1837

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 85 [The Elephant's] becke is holpen with that snowt that helpeth him euen as our hand doth.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 295 The beake or snout of a Horsse, ought not to stand out like a swynes.

4. The elongated head, proboscis, or sucker mouth of certain insects; e.g. the weevil, cochineal.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > proboscis

nib1585

beak1658

promuscis1658

proboscisa1660

trunk1661

probe1664

trump1752

antlia1826

siphuncle1826

spiritrompe1831

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1086 The Weevil..is formed like a small Beetle, it hath a beck proper to it self.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §720 The young larvæ [of the Cochineal]..affix themselves by their sucking-beak.

1866 E. C. Rye Brit. Beetles xvii. 174 The Rhynchophora..have the head elongated in front into a rostrum or beak.

5. humorously. The human nose.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun]

noseeOE

naseeOE

nebeOE

billa1000

nesec1175

grunyie?a1513

gnomon1582

nib1585

proboscis1631

handle to (also of, on) one's face1675

snot-gall1685

nozzle1689

bowsprit1690

smeller1699

snitch1699

trunk1699

vessel1813

index1817

conk1819

sneezer1820

scent box1826

snorter1829

snuff-box1829

bugle1847

beak1854

nasal1854

sniffer1858

boko1859

snoot1861

snorer1891

horn1893

spectacles-seat1895

razzo1899

beezer1915

schnozzle1926

schnozzola1929

schnozz1930

snozzle1930

honker1942

hooter1958

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Naso adunco, a beake-nose.]

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 296 The well-known hooked beak of the old Countess.

1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 143 A large, fat, greasy woman, with a prominent beak.

II. Transferred and technical senses.

6. A beak-shaped point or projection; a peak.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence

bill1382

pointa1387

tatter1402

beakc1440

spike1488

neb1578

prong1591

prow1601

taggera1687

tang1688

jog1715

nib1788

tusk1823

spur1872

c1440 Partonope 2100 Wyth the beke yet of his gleve.

1483 in J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume (1834) 212 Two hats of estate..with the round rolls behind and the beeks before.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 109^v Cuddenbeak, an ancient house of the Bishops, from a well aduaunced Promontory, which intituled it Beak.

1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. iii. viii. 206/1 It was ordained..that Beaks of Shin [= shoes] and Boots, should not pass the length of two Inches.

1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance iv. 106 A goose-quill cut to a point..but with a longer beak.

7. The pointed and ornamented projection at the prow of ancient vessels, esp. of war galleys, where it was used in piercing and disabling the enemy's vessels; now = beak-head n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > beak of galley

hornc1275

snouta1387

beak1550

spurn1553

beak-head1579

spur1604

rostrum1659

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. vi. f. clxxxiii Crusshedde and brused in their foore partes with the beckes of the Corynthyans.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 197 Now on the Beake, Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn, I flam'd amazement.

1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 63 Xerxes' navy with their hostile beaks.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 43 Ship on ship Struck clashing; beak on butting beak was driven.

a. In the shells of some univalves: a narrow prolongation of the shell beyond the aperture in the axial line, containing the ‘canal’.

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1851 J. Richardson Palæontol. viii. 240 The canal is the elongation of the aperture, in both lips of those shells which have a beak.

b. In those of some bivalves: the projecting apex of each valve, situated directly above the hinge; also called umbo.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > parts of

beard1649

hinge1704

cardo1725

palpus1803

disc1810

ligament1816

palp1835

tooth1847

hinge-tooth1851

beak1854

curtain1854

talon1854

resilium1895

hinge-ligament1909

1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 245 The valves of the Conchifera are bound together by an elastic ligament... The apex is..termed the beak, or umbo.

9. Botany. A sharp projecting process, or prolonged tip, as in the seeds of Crane's-bill, etc.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > horn- or beak-like part

peakc1450

horn1776

rostrum1818

beak1820

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 45 Whose seedes be long and sharpe like to a Hearons beake or byl.]

1820 J. Galpine Brit. Bot. (ed. 2) 67 Siliques linear, smooth, with short beaks.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 75 Ovary..produced upwards into a styliferous beak.

10. The taper tube of a retort, still, etc.; a spout.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > spout

spout1412

spult1470

stroup1505

beak1651

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 146 Take a Caldron with a..high cover having a beake or nose.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 542 When the beak of a retort is dipped into such mercury.

†11. plural. A pair of pincers, a forceps. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > forceps

tenaclesc1400

tongsc1425

raven's bill1446

parrotbill1598

duck's bill1601

swan's bill1631

forceps1634

beaks1656

volsella1684

tenaculum1693

rostrum1722

crane's-bill1753

porte-aiguille1830

volsellum1851

vulsellum1863

iris-forceps1874

speculum forceps1875

bulldog forceps1880

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 172 The bone must be cut away either with Beaks or Rasps.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 357 It is taken out with the Fingers, or Bekes, with or without cutting.

12. technically in mechanical arts:

a. in Printing (see quot. 1676¹).

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > stem or thick stroke > projection of

beak1676

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 21 The Projecture or Beak of the Stem.

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 18 The Beak projects 1 stem on the left hand.

b. in Forging (see beak-iron n.).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > tapering end

beak-iron1678

pike1678

horn1826

beak1831

bick1896

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 182 The beak or point of his anvil.

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c. in Carpentry, the crooked end of the holdfast of a carpenter's bench.

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d. in Gas-fitting, a gas-burner with a circular hole ¹/ ₂₈ of an inch in diameter.

e. in Organ-building.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > other parts of pipes

tongue1551

mouth1727

lip1728

reed1728

wind-cuttera1834

labium1847

beak1852

beard1852

underlip1852

wedge1852

body tube1854

plate-of-wind1875

wind-way1875

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 82 The mouth-piece..consists of the block, the beak, the tongue, the spring, the reed.

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13. Farriery, ‘A little horse-shoe, turned up, and fastened in upon the forepart of the hoof. Its use is to keep the shoes fast.’ Chambers Cycl. Supp.

14. Architecture. ‘A little pendent fillet left on the edge of the larmier, forming a canal behind to prevent the water from running down the lower bed of the cornice.’ Gwilt.

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1734 in Builder's Dict.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as beak-mouth, beak-nose (see 5), beak-rush, beak-sedge (see quot.); also the adjectives beak-bearing, beak-leaved, beak-like, beak-shaped, beak-sharp. See also beak-head n., beak-iron n.

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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > resembling a beak (of jaw)

beak-like1830

the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective]

piked1269

pointedc1325

sharp1340

peakedc1350

pricked?a1425

sharp-pointed1530

acuatea1550

piquant1549

picked1552

corned?c1562

arrow-headed1567

acuminated1578

pointing1578

acute1598

exasperated1608

spitted1626

pointy1644

sagittal1656

pecked1662

piqued1689

spired1694

piky1741

spiky1743

spiry1777

apexed1813

beak-shaped1830

peaky1832

apiculated1839

cusped1888

sagittiform1895

cuspate1896

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants

rusheOE

sharp rushc1050

seave14..

junk?a1425

candle-rushc1440

rush1562

sea-rush1562

camel's-straw1578

mat-rush1578

sprot1595

frog grass1597

matweed1597

rush grass1597

sprata1600

spart1614

bumble1633

toad-grass1640

moss-rush1670

thresha1689

spreta1700

bog rush1760

black grassa1763

goose-corn1762

toad-rush1776

wood-rush1776

stool-bent1777

scrub-grass1811

beak-rush1830

salt-weed1836

wiwi1840

thread rush1861

three-leaved rush1861

kill-cow1898

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > of the beak > having a beak

billed1399

rostrous1651

rostrated1797

beak-bearing1830

rostriferous1852

beaked1869

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size

broad-leaved1552

long-leaved1562

narrow-leaved1578

round-leaved1597

small-leaved1597

long-leafed1629

rosemary-leaved1633

rue-leaved1633

teretifolious1657

cut-leaved1731

longleaf1733

channel-leaved1758

halberd-shaped1770

alder-leaved1772

oak-leaved1776

holly-leaved1777

ivy-leaved1789

halberd-headed1795

daisy-leaved1796

narrow-leaf1804

oblique-leaved1807

sword-leaved1807

wing-leaved1822

flaggy1842

curly1845

macrophyllous1857

parvifolious1857

shield-leaved1860

curled1861

symphyllous1877

beak-leaved188.

stenophyllous1880

thread-leaved1884

megaphyllous1901

little leaf1908

ivy-leaf1909

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of

tutel?c1225

oven mouthc1425

plaice-moutha1569

pouch-mouth?1570

flop-mouth1604

flap-mouth1631

out-mouth1668

flounder-mouth1672

sparrow-mouth1673

splay-mouth1693

smoke-holea1704

screw mouth1707

spout mouth1736

beak-mouth1921

satchel-mouth1933

motormouth1976

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose

cammed?c1350

camoisc1380

snatteda1387

camoisedc1515

flat1560

hawked1577

rising1606

simous1634

aquiline1646

Roman1665

snoutya1685

suspense1697

rhinocerical1710

rhinocerotic1755

Bardolphian1756

cock-up1763

bridgeless1772

retroussé1802

snubbed1802

snubbish1828

snubby1828

snipish1834

snub1843

pugged1847

puggisha1849

tip-tilted1872

saddleback1897

beak-sharp1933

spitzy1968

1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 109 White Beak-rush. R[hynchospora] alba..[found in] Turfy bogs and marshes.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 251/2 The beak-bearing mouth of the adult.

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 878/2 The dense covering of the beak-like jaws of the Parrot-fishes.

1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 232 The dorsal valve is the largest, and..develops a beak-shaped process.

188. G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 98 Only the beakleaved boughs.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Tortoises 9 To open your tiny beak-mouth.

1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 152 Beak-sharp nose.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

beakv.

Brit.

/biːk/, U.S.

/bik/

Forms: Middle English beke, (Middle English bike), 1500s beake, 1600s beck, 1600s– beak.

Etymology: < Old French beque-r, bequier, < bec beak n.¹; compare Middle High German becken, bicken.

1. To strike or seize with the beak, to peck; to push the beak (or snout) into:

a. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > peck

beak?c1225

pecka1382

to pick at ——a1449

bill1496

stock1653

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 95 As deð þe pellican..wið hire bile beake [?a1289 Scribe D bekke] on hire breoste.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Hocicar To roote as a pigge, to busse, or beake.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 513/1 The crows came and beaked it for several days.

1861 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye ii. 296 Some poor woodland bird, who stays his flight..And beaks the plumage of his glistening wings.

b. absol. or intransitive: occasionally figurative.

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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > peck

billc1220

beak?c1225

pecka1398

joba1500

neba1819

peggle1854

stock1893

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 67 Þe bacbitere..bekeð mid his blake bile on quike caroines.

1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 65 b Certaine sparrowes..supposing they had been grapes, arrested them to beake thereon.

1786 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes for 1785 (new ed.) xi. 30 Like cocks, for ever at each other beaking.

†c. spec. in Falconry; see quot. 1486.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions

tirec1220

beak1486

enseam1486

traverse1486

bind1575

crab1575

gleam1575

accost1596

canceleera1640

to wait on1773

to throw up1881

1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She bekyth when she sewith: that is to say she wypith hir beke.

2. intransitive. To project or stick out with or as a beak; to put or push out the beak; to ‘put out the nose,’ i.e. to peep out. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peep

beak?c1225

toot?c1225

prya1350

peekc1390

touta1400

keekc1405

peepa1500

outpeep1600

twire1602

teet1710

underpeep1827

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > slightly

beak?c1225

peekc1460

peepa1475

peer1568

glimpse1663

teeta1866

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project as sharp prominence [verb (intransitive)]

beaka1549

point1612

tongue1856

pierce1872

spike1958

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Totinde ancre..þet bekeð utwart eauer as brid deð of cage.

a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 207 On the toppe..is a thyng like a poding bekyng forward.

†3. ? To thrust, strike with a pointed weapon.[In the quotation biked may be for beked, as styked interchanges with steked, perhaps the original reading here; but it may also be a distinct word. Mätzner compares Middle High German bicken, and becken, ‘to pierce, strike through, hack, hew,’ < French piquer, Italian piccare.]

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > strike with sharp weapon [verb (intransitive)] > strike with pointed weapon

beakc1300

pushc1390

foin?a1400

stab1487

stogc1590

voine1596

thrust1598

chib1962

c1300 K. Alis. 2337 The thridde, Gildas, faste biked; Ac thorugh the throte he him styked.

4. transitive. To ram (a vessel). Also absol.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > ram

stemc1500

to give (a ship) the stem1548

ram1664

beak1898

1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being 55 We could run in and beak 'em while it's thick... Oh, he'd beak like a shot, if he saw his chance.

Derivatives

ˈbeaking n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > ramming

beaking1898

1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being 55 We could run in and beak 'em while it's thick. I believe in beaking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	beak
释义	beakn.¹ Brit. /biːk/, U.S. /bik/ Forms: Middle English–1500s bec, Middle English bek, beke, Middle English–1500s beeke, 1500s becke (plural bex), 1500s–1600s beake, 1600s beack, 1600s–1700s beck, 1600s– beak. Etymology: < French bec (= Italian becco, Provençal bec, Spanish bico, Portuguese bico < late Latin beccus), of Gaulish origin. Suetonius says ( Vitell. 18) that Antonius Primus, who was born at Toulouse, had as a boy the nickname of Beccus, ‘id valet, gallinacei rostrum.’ According to Thurneysen, probably related to the Celtic stem bacc- ‘hook’; but the modern Celtic words, Irish bec, Breton bek, beg, are ‘certainly borrowed’ from English and French. The original short vowel of French bec, Middle English bec, bek, was still retained in beck in the 18th cent., but the form beek, beak, with lengthened vowel, occurred in the plural at least, where it evidently originated (bek-es being made into be-kes, bē-kes, beekes, beaks; compare staff, staves) as early as 1400. I. Original and allied senses. 1. a. The horny termination of the jaws of a bird, consisting of two pointed mandibles adapted for piercing and for taking firm hold: a bird's bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill nebeOE billa1000 beakc1220 snoutc1380 nib1585 pecker1891 c1220 Bestiary 58 in Old Eng. Misc. 3 Siðen his bec is al to-wrong. 1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 395 But the nedy nestlingis..burnisched her beekis, and bent to himwardis. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vj b Ye shall say this hauke has a large beke or a shortt beke, and call it not bille. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxi. 432 The Gryffon..was redy to dystroye hym with his becke and naylys. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 37 If peacocke & turkey, leaue iobbing their becks. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 212 His Royall Bird Prunes the immortall wing, and cloyes his Beake . View more context for this quotation 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 107 With Vultur's Becks, And Shoulders higher than their Necks. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 58/1 The Eagle..to attain his new beak, must harshly dash off the old one upon rocks. b. birds of a beak (cf. ‘birds of a feather’; see a adj. 2). ΚΠ 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. C3^v Cut vp one, cut vp all, they were birds all of a beake. c. transferred. The long snout of a fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > snout beak1889 1889 in Cent. Dict. 1927 Observer 24 July 22 A 38-lb. cock-salmon... I was obliged to measure it, and I made it over 50 inches, from tail to beak. 2. The extremities, often horny in structure, of the mandibles of other animals; e.g. the turtle, ornithorhynchus, octopus, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > snout > beak billa1000 peakc1450 rostrum1677 beak1822 1822 Burrowes Cycl. at Sepia Their beak is like that of a parrot. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. at Ornithorhynchus The edge of the osseous beak. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §485 Tortoises..[have] the mouth destitute of teeth, but furnished with a horny beak. 1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy vi. 317 An octopus which..shoots its beak into a vital spot. †3. The snout or muzzle of quadrupeds. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (parts) of foot > quadruped > parts of master sinewa1400 palma1425 beak1567 pad1837 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 85 [The Elephant's] becke is holpen with that snowt that helpeth him euen as our hand doth. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 295 The beake or snout of a Horsse, ought not to stand out like a swynes. 4. The elongated head, proboscis, or sucker mouth of certain insects; e.g. the weevil, cochineal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > proboscis nib1585 beak1658 promuscis1658 proboscisa1660 trunk1661 probe1664 trump1752 antlia1826 siphuncle1826 spiritrompe1831 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1086 The Weevil..is formed like a small Beetle, it hath a beck proper to it self. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §720 The young larvæ [of the Cochineal]..affix themselves by their sucking-beak. 1866 E. C. Rye Brit. Beetles xvii. 174 The Rhynchophora..have the head elongated in front into a rostrum or beak. 5. humorously. The human nose. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] noseeOE naseeOE nebeOE billa1000 nesec1175 grunyie?a1513 gnomon1582 nib1585 proboscis1631 handle to (also of, on) one's face1675 snot-gall1685 nozzle1689 bowsprit1690 smeller1699 snitch1699 trunk1699 vessel1813 index1817 conk1819 sneezer1820 scent box1826 snorter1829 snuff-box1829 bugle1847 beak1854 nasal1854 sniffer1858 boko1859 snoot1861 snorer1891 horn1893 spectacles-seat1895 razzo1899 beezer1915 schnozzle1926 schnozzola1929 schnozz1930 snozzle1930 honker1942 hooter1958 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Naso adunco, a beake-nose.] 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 296 The well-known hooked beak of the old Countess. 1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 143 A large, fat, greasy woman, with a prominent beak. II. Transferred and technical senses. 6. A beak-shaped point or projection; a peak. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence bill1382 pointa1387 tatter1402 beakc1440 spike1488 neb1578 prong1591 prow1601 taggera1687 tang1688 jog1715 nib1788 tusk1823 spur1872 c1440 Partonope 2100 Wyth the beke yet of his gleve. 1483 in J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume (1834) 212 Two hats of estate..with the round rolls behind and the beeks before. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 109^v Cuddenbeak, an ancient house of the Bishops, from a well aduaunced Promontory, which intituled it Beak. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. iii. viii. 206/1 It was ordained..that Beaks of Shin [= shoes] and Boots, should not pass the length of two Inches. 1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance iv. 106 A goose-quill cut to a point..but with a longer beak. 7. The pointed and ornamented projection at the prow of ancient vessels, esp. of war galleys, where it was used in piercing and disabling the enemy's vessels; now = beak-head n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > beak of galley hornc1275 snouta1387 beak1550 spurn1553 beak-head1579 spur1604 rostrum1659 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. vi. f. clxxxiii Crusshedde and brused in their foore partes with the beckes of the Corynthyans. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 197 Now on the Beake, Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn, I flam'd amazement. View more context for this quotation 1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 63 Xerxes' navy with their hostile beaks. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 43 Ship on ship Struck clashing; beak on butting beak was driven. 8. a. In the shells of some univalves: a narrow prolongation of the shell beyond the aperture in the axial line, containing the ‘canal’. ΚΠ 1851 J. Richardson Palæontol. viii. 240 The canal is the elongation of the aperture, in both lips of those shells which have a beak. b. In those of some bivalves: the projecting apex of each valve, situated directly above the hinge; also called umbo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > parts of beard1649 hinge1704 cardo1725 palpus1803 disc1810 ligament1816 palp1835 tooth1847 hinge-tooth1851 beak1854 curtain1854 talon1854 resilium1895 hinge-ligament1909 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 245 The valves of the Conchifera are bound together by an elastic ligament... The apex is..termed the beak, or umbo. 9. Botany. A sharp projecting process, or prolonged tip, as in the seeds of Crane's-bill, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > horn- or beak-like part peakc1450 horn1776 rostrum1818 beak1820 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 45 Whose seedes be long and sharpe like to a Hearons beake or byl.] 1820 J. Galpine Brit. Bot. (ed. 2) 67 Siliques linear, smooth, with short beaks. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 75 Ovary..produced upwards into a styliferous beak. 10. The taper tube of a retort, still, etc.; a spout. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > spout spout1412 spult1470 stroup1505 beak1651 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 146 Take a Caldron with a..high cover having a beake or nose. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 542 When the beak of a retort is dipped into such mercury. †11. plural. A pair of pincers, a forceps. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > forceps tenaclesc1400 tongsc1425 raven's bill1446 parrotbill1598 duck's bill1601 swan's bill1631 forceps1634 beaks1656 volsella1684 tenaculum1693 rostrum1722 crane's-bill1753 porte-aiguille1830 volsellum1851 vulsellum1863 iris-forceps1874 speculum forceps1875 bulldog forceps1880 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 172 The bone must be cut away either with Beaks or Rasps. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 357 It is taken out with the Fingers, or Bekes, with or without cutting. 12. technically in mechanical arts: a. in Printing (see quot. 1676¹). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > stem or thick stroke > projection of beak1676 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 21 The Projecture or Beak of the Stem. 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 18 The Beak projects 1 stem on the left hand. b. in Forging (see beak-iron n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > tapering end beak-iron1678 pike1678 horn1826 beak1831 bick1896 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 182 The beak or point of his anvil. Categories » c. in Carpentry, the crooked end of the holdfast of a carpenter's bench. Categories » d. in Gas-fitting, a gas-burner with a circular hole ¹/ ₂₈ of an inch in diameter. e. in Organ-building. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > other parts of pipes tongue1551 mouth1727 lip1728 reed1728 wind-cuttera1834 labium1847 beak1852 beard1852 underlip1852 wedge1852 body tube1854 plate-of-wind1875 wind-way1875 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 82 The mouth-piece..consists of the block, the beak, the tongue, the spring, the reed. Categories » 13. Farriery, ‘A little horse-shoe, turned up, and fastened in upon the forepart of the hoof. Its use is to keep the shoes fast.’ Chambers Cycl. Supp. 14. Architecture. ‘A little pendent fillet left on the edge of the larmier, forming a canal behind to prevent the water from running down the lower bed of the cornice.’ Gwilt. ΚΠ 1734 in Builder's Dict. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as beak-mouth, beak-nose (see 5), beak-rush, beak-sedge (see quot.); also the adjectives beak-bearing, beak-leaved, beak-like, beak-shaped, beak-sharp. See also beak-head n., beak-iron n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > resembling a beak (of jaw) beak-like1830 the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] piked1269 pointedc1325 sharp1340 peakedc1350 pricked?a1425 sharp-pointed1530 acuatea1550 piquant1549 picked1552 corned?c1562 arrow-headed1567 acuminated1578 pointing1578 acute1598 exasperated1608 spitted1626 pointy1644 sagittal1656 pecked1662 piqued1689 spired1694 piky1741 spiky1743 spiry1777 apexed1813 beak-shaped1830 peaky1832 apiculated1839 cusped1888 sagittiform1895 cuspate1896 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants rusheOE sharp rushc1050 seave14.. junk?a1425 candle-rushc1440 rush1562 sea-rush1562 camel's-straw1578 mat-rush1578 sprot1595 frog grass1597 matweed1597 rush grass1597 sprata1600 spart1614 bumble1633 toad-grass1640 moss-rush1670 thresha1689 spreta1700 bog rush1760 black grassa1763 goose-corn1762 toad-rush1776 wood-rush1776 stool-bent1777 scrub-grass1811 beak-rush1830 salt-weed1836 wiwi1840 thread rush1861 three-leaved rush1861 kill-cow1898 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > of the beak > having a beak billed1399 rostrous1651 rostrated1797 beak-bearing1830 rostriferous1852 beaked1869 the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size broad-leaved1552 long-leaved1562 narrow-leaved1578 round-leaved1597 small-leaved1597 long-leafed1629 rosemary-leaved1633 rue-leaved1633 teretifolious1657 cut-leaved1731 longleaf1733 channel-leaved1758 halberd-shaped1770 alder-leaved1772 oak-leaved1776 holly-leaved1777 ivy-leaved1789 halberd-headed1795 daisy-leaved1796 narrow-leaf1804 oblique-leaved1807 sword-leaved1807 wing-leaved1822 flaggy1842 curly1845 macrophyllous1857 parvifolious1857 shield-leaved1860 curled1861 symphyllous1877 beak-leaved188. stenophyllous1880 thread-leaved1884 megaphyllous1901 little leaf1908 ivy-leaf1909 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of tutel?c1225 oven mouthc1425 plaice-moutha1569 pouch-mouth?1570 flop-mouth1604 flap-mouth1631 out-mouth1668 flounder-mouth1672 sparrow-mouth1673 splay-mouth1693 smoke-holea1704 screw mouth1707 spout mouth1736 beak-mouth1921 satchel-mouth1933 motormouth1976 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose cammed?c1350 camoisc1380 snatteda1387 camoisedc1515 flat1560 hawked1577 rising1606 simous1634 aquiline1646 Roman1665 snoutya1685 suspense1697 rhinocerical1710 rhinocerotic1755 Bardolphian1756 cock-up1763 bridgeless1772 retroussé1802 snubbed1802 snubbish1828 snubby1828 snipish1834 snub1843 pugged1847 puggisha1849 tip-tilted1872 saddleback1897 beak-sharp1933 spitzy1968 1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 109 White Beak-rush. R[hynchospora] alba..[found in] Turfy bogs and marshes. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 251/2 The beak-bearing mouth of the adult. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 878/2 The dense covering of the beak-like jaws of the Parrot-fishes. 1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 232 The dorsal valve is the largest, and..develops a beak-shaped process. 188. G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 98 Only the beakleaved boughs. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Tortoises 9 To open your tiny beak-mouth. 1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 152 Beak-sharp nose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † beakn.² Etymology: ? < beak v., or French becquer, in the sense ‘to give a stroke with the beak.’ Obsolete. rare. ? A stroke with the beak; a thrust, a poke. ΚΠ 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 100 A hardie Britton thinking not to toy Vnto..my seruant gaue a beake. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). beakn.³ Brit. /biːk/, U.S. /bik/ Etymology: Derivation unknown. ? < beak n.¹; but in Harman's vocabulary of ‘Peddlers' French’ in his Caveat (1573), harman beck is explained as ‘the counstable’ (harman being ‘the stocks’). slang. a. A magistrate or justice of the peace. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > Justice of the peace or district magistrate Justice of the Peace1423 justice1509 conservator of the peacea1513 Warden of the Peace1543 Guardian of the Peace1581 mittimus1630 magistrate1727 J.P.1732 beak1799 county commissioner1809 bubble and squeak1935 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii The harman beck, the Counstable. c1600 Gipsy Song in Shaks. Eng. (1856) I. viii. 270 The ruffin (devil) cly (take) the nob (head) of the harman beck.] 1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 352 Took a gentle walk to the [police] office..paid my respects to Sir William, and the rest of the beaks. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 124 Why, a beak's a madgst'rate; and when you walk by a beak's order, it's..always going up, and nivir coming down agen. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 157 Dicky Gossips of birds, That talk with as much good sense and decorum As many Beaks who belong to the Quorum. 1879 E. Walford Londoniana I. 233 We hope and trust [they] were brought before the ‘beak’ and duly punished. b. transferred (Schoolboy slang.) A schoolmaster. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] schoolmasterc1225 pedagoguea1387 pedanty1573 pedanta1586 dominiea1625 Khoja1625 schoolteachera1691 knight of the grammar1692 boy farmer1869 schoolkeeper1871 faki1872 professor1880 beak1888 schoolie1889 grade teacher1906 master teacher1931 chalk-and-talker1937 sir1955 teach1958 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Feb. 5/1 One of the Eton masters, or ‘beaks’, if we may be allowed to use a schoolboy phrase. 1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize ix You can have your crib spread out..and he won't see it. He didn't ought to be a beak at all. 1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 383/1 This scholarly Irishman and Eton ‘beak’. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 69 Comparing bruises, other boys could show Far worse ones that the beaks and prefects made. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). beakv. Brit. /biːk/, U.S. /bik/ Forms: Middle English beke, (Middle English bike), 1500s beake, 1600s beck, 1600s– beak. Etymology: < Old French beque-r, bequier, < bec beak n.¹; compare Middle High German becken, bicken. 1. To strike or seize with the beak, to peck; to push the beak (or snout) into: a. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > peck beak?c1225 pecka1382 to pick at ——a1449 bill1496 stock1653 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 95 As deð þe pellican..wið hire bile beake [?a1289 Scribe D bekke] on hire breoste. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Hocicar To roote as a pigge, to busse, or beake. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 513/1 The crows came and beaked it for several days. 1861 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye ii. 296 Some poor woodland bird, who stays his flight..And beaks the plumage of his glistening wings. b. absol. or intransitive: occasionally figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > peck billc1220 beak?c1225 pecka1398 joba1500 neba1819 peggle1854 stock1893 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 67 Þe bacbitere..bekeð mid his blake bile on quike caroines. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 65 b Certaine sparrowes..supposing they had been grapes, arrested them to beake thereon. 1786 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes for 1785 (new ed.) xi. 30 Like cocks, for ever at each other beaking. †c. spec. in Falconry; see quot. 1486. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions tirec1220 beak1486 enseam1486 traverse1486 bind1575 crab1575 gleam1575 accost1596 canceleera1640 to wait on1773 to throw up1881 1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She bekyth when she sewith: that is to say she wypith hir beke. 2. intransitive. To project or stick out with or as a beak; to put or push out the beak; to ‘put out the nose,’ i.e. to peep out. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peep beak?c1225 toot?c1225 prya1350 peekc1390 touta1400 keekc1405 peepa1500 outpeep1600 twire1602 teet1710 underpeep1827 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > slightly beak?c1225 peekc1460 peepa1475 peer1568 glimpse1663 teeta1866 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project as sharp prominence [verb (intransitive)] beaka1549 point1612 tongue1856 pierce1872 spike1958 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Totinde ancre..þet bekeð utwart eauer as brid deð of cage. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 207 On the toppe..is a thyng like a poding bekyng forward. †3. ? To thrust, strike with a pointed weapon.[In the quotation biked may be for beked, as styked interchanges with steked, perhaps the original reading here; but it may also be a distinct word. Mätzner compares Middle High German bicken, and becken, ‘to pierce, strike through, hack, hew,’ < French piquer, Italian piccare.] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > strike with sharp weapon [verb (intransitive)] > strike with pointed weapon beakc1300 pushc1390 foin?a1400 stab1487 stogc1590 voine1596 thrust1598 chib1962 c1300 K. Alis. 2337 The thridde, Gildas, faste biked; Ac thorugh the throte he him styked. 4. transitive. To ram (a vessel). Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > ram stemc1500 to give (a ship) the stem1548 ram1664 beak1898 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being 55 We could run in and beak 'em while it's thick... Oh, he'd beak like a shot, if he saw his chance. Derivatives ˈbeaking n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > ramming beaking1898 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being 55 We could run in and beak 'em while it's thick. I believe in beaking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹c1220n.²1592n.³1799v.?c1225
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