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beaked, ppl. a.|biːkt|
Also 7 beck'd.
[f. beak n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Furnished with a beak (or peak).
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 290 A long beaked doublet hanging downe to his thies. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Oiseau, Beaked like a Parrot. 1870Bryant Iliad I. i. 19, I shall now go home..With my beaked ships.
2. spec.
a. in Her. used when the beak or bill of the fowl is of a different tincture from the body.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 36 b, An Eagle displayed with twoo heades..membred and beaked Gules. 1864Boutell Hist. Heraldry xv. §15. 264 Three herons arg{ddd}beaked and legged or.
b. in Bot. Rostrate: sometimes forming a descriptive epithet of plants, e.g. Beaked Parsley.
1841Withering Bot. Arrangem. (ed. 5) 143 Common Beaked-parsley. Fruit egg-shaped. 1858Thoreau Maine W. (1882) 119, I saw the aster puniceus and the beaked hazel. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 4 Butter-cup..Fruit a head or spike of apiculate or beaked achenes.
c. in Zool. Having a beak-like proboscis.
1869Nicholson Zool. liv. (1880) 500 Other well-known members of the family [Batides] are..the Beaked Rays. 1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 280/2 The Hyperoodontidæ, or beaked-whales, are widely distributed in northern, southern, and tropical seas.
3. Resembling a beak, pointed or hooked.
1590Greene Never too late (1600) 96 His nose..was conquerour like, as beaked as an Eagle. 1637Milton Lycidas 94 Every gust..That blows from off each beaked promontory. 1863Cornh. Mag. 100 Small, searching eyes, a beaked nose, and white bristly hair. |
