Word Meanings - BEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: BEAK

1. The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 2. Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. Carew.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEAK)

• Bill
• Account
• reckoning
• score
• charges
• jaw
• mandible
• beak

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BEAK)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken

Related words: (words related to BEAK)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• SCORER
  One who, or that which, scores.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• ACCOUNTABILITY
  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
• PERPLEXLY
  Perplexedly. Milton.
• UNDERSTATE
  To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
• MYSTIFY
  1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. 2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of
• DISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
• ACCOUNTABLE
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
• ACCOUNT BOOK
  A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• SCORE
  The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its
• DARKENER
  One who, or that which, darkens.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• FOURSCORE
  Four times twenty; eighty.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• UNDERSCORE
  To draw a mark or line under; to underline. J. Tucker.