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Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..

Potamian :: Potamian (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx..

Beakiron :: Beakiron (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil..

Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

Flamingo :: Flamingo (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum..

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

Horn :: Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle..

Coronoid :: Coronoid (a.) Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna..

Deltidium :: Deltidium (n.) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

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

Turbit :: Turbit (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak..

Rostriform :: Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form..

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..

Preen :: Preen (n.) To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds..

Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

Swan :: Swan (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death..

Martlet :: Martlet (n.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.

Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..

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