Beak vs. Bill

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Beaknoun

Anatomical uses.

Beaknoun

A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.

Beaknoun

A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.

Beaknoun

The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

Beaknoun

The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

Beaknoun

The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

Beaknoun

(botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

Beaknoun

Figurative uses.

Beaknoun

Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

Beaknoun

(architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Beaknoun

(farriery) A toe clip.

Beaknoun

(nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

Beaknoun

(nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

Beaknoun

Colloquial uses.

Beaknoun

(slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.

Beaknoun

A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.

Beakverb

(transitive) Strike with the beak.

Beakverb

(transitive) Seize with the beak.

Beakverb

To play truant.

Beaknoun

The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varies much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.

Beaknoun

Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.

Beaknoun

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

Beaknoun

That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

Beaknoun

A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Beaknoun

Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

Beaknoun

A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

Beaknoun

A magistrate or policeman.

Beaknoun

beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)

Beaknoun

horny projecting mouth of a bird

Beaknoun

informal terms for the nose

Beakverb

hit lightly with a picking motion

Beaknoun

a bird's horny projecting jaws; a bill

Beaknoun

the horny projecting jaw of animals other than birds, for example a turtle or squid.

Beaknoun

a person's nose

Beaknoun

a projection at the prow of an ancient warship, typically shaped to resemble the head of a bird or other animal, used to pierce the hulls of enemy ships.

Beaknoun

a magistrate or a schoolmaster.

Beak

The beak, bill, and/or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in non-avian dinosaurs and some mammals. A beak is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.

Billnoun

Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

Billnoun

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

Billnoun

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickaxe, or mattock.

Billnoun

(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

Billnoun

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

Billnoun

A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

Billnoun

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Billnoun

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

Billnoun

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

Billnoun

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Billnoun

(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.

Billnoun

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

Billnoun

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Billnoun

A set of items presented together.

Billverb

(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Billverb

(obsolete) To peck.

Billverb

To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

Billnoun

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

Billnoun

The bell, or boom, of the bittern

Billnoun

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; - used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

Billnoun

A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.

Billnoun

One who wields a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickax, or mattock.

Billnoun

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Billnoun

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Billnoun

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.

Billnoun

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

Billnoun

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

Billnoun

Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

Billverb

To strike; to peck.

Billverb

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

Billverb

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.