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The beak or head of a ship. |
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The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where
orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so
called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of
captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in
Rome for the use of public orators. |
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Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform
occupied by an orator or public speaker. |
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Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal,
as the beak of birds. |
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The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. |
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The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of
Littorina. |
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The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the
carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn. |
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Same as Rostellum. |
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The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver
in the common alembic. |
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A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike
form. |
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