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Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) 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..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

Crossbeak :: Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.

Tetrodon :: Tetrodon (n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth..

Mandible :: Mandible (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds..

Falcon :: Falcon (n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight..

Crossbill :: Crossbill (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..

Grenadier :: Grenadier (n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black..

Doegling :: Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained..

Xiphius :: Xiphius (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw..

Openbill :: Openbill (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak..

Gonydial :: Gonydial (a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..

Kingfisher :: Kingfisher (n.) Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles, insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant in the East Indies..

Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..

Ram :: Ram (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..

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