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Anatomical uses.
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Figurative uses.
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Colloquial uses.
verb
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Strike with the beak.
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Seize with the beak.
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To play truant.
Examples of beaks in a Sentence
Pushing each other aside, they buried their beaks in the water and lifted their heads, eyeing her suspiciously as the water trickled down their throats.
J., and to the beaks of the two heads of the eagle is attached a chain on which is the legend Viribus Unitis.
Not to speak of insects which feed upon the pitcher itself, some drop their eggs into the putrescent mass, where their larvae find abundant nourishment, while birds often slit open the pitchers with their beaks and devour the maggots in their turn.
The Mexican military costumes are to be seen in the picture-writings, where the military orders of princes, eagles and tigers are known by their braided hair, eagles' beaks and spotted armour.
Antium is named with Ardea, Laurentum and Circeii, as under Roman protection, in the treaty with Carthage in 34 8 B.C. In 341 it lost its independence after a rising with the rest of Latium against Rome, and the beaks (rostra) of the six captured Antiatine ships decorated and gave their name to the orators' tribunal in the Roman Forum.
They had fierce eyes and sharp talons and beaks, and the children hoped none of them would venture into the cavern.
By-products - means anything from beaks and claws to hair and feathers.
It can be anything from bones to beaks and intestines to eyes.
Pipe beaks onto all of the baby chickens or use your orange fondant to form tiny beaks and stick them on with buttercream "glue."
If you don't want to bother with tinting more fondant, you can also pipe buttercream beaks and decorations onto fondant backgrounds.
For instance, crude protein can come from sources such as ground beaks and feathers and pass through the dog's body completely undigested.
I was afraid to pose the question, but asked if there were any other questionable ingredients in our pets' food.Meat by-products can include indigestible materials such as beaks, feet, feathers and hair.
Busy Beaks - This store offers a cute set of parrot coasters to go along with your wine bottle holder.
The price for the holders offered by Busy Beaks is around $50.
Practice doing reverse and inside reverse folds, because this is a commonly used technique for folding many bird heads and beaks.
Younger eagles have brown beaks and brown or mottled brown and white feathers on head and tail.
Their food is chiefly fish, for the capture of which their long narrow beaks, armed with numerous sharp-pointed teeth, are well adapted, but some also devour crustaceans and molluscs.