Beaked

ppl. a.; also 7 beck’d. [f. BEAK sb.¹ + -ED².]

  1.  Furnished with a beak (or peak).

1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 290. A long beaked doublet hanging downe to his thies.

1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Oiseau, Beaked like a Parrot.

1870.  Bryant, 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.

1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 36 b. An Eagle displayed with twoo heades … membred and beaked Gules.

1864.  Boutell, Hist. Heraldry, xv. § 15. 264. Three herons arg. … beaked and legged or.

  b.  in Bot. Rostrate: sometimes forming a descriptive epithet of plants, e.g., Beaked Parsley.

1841.  Withering, Bot. Arrangem. (ed. 5), 143. Common Beaked-parsley. Fruit egg-shaped.

1858.  Thoreau, Maine W. (1882), 119. I saw the aster puniceus and the beaked hazel.

1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 4. Butter-cup … Fruit a head or spike of apiculate or beaked achenes.

  c.  in Zool. Having a beak-like proboscis.

1869.  Nicholson, Zool., liv. (1880), 500. Other well-known members of the family [Batides] are … the Beaked Rays.

  3.  Resembling a beak, pointed or hooked.

1590.  Greene, Never too late (1600), 96. His nose … was conquerour like, as beaked as an Eagle.

1637.  Milton, Lycidas, 94. Every gust … That blows from off each beaked promontory.

1863.  Cornh. Mag., 100. He has small, searching eyes, a beaked nose, and white bristly hair.