Bird's-beak

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• Beak

  ·noun A magistrate or policeman. II. Beak ·noun A toe clip. ·see <<Clip>>, ·noun. (Far.). III. Bea...

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• beak

  A justice of-peace, or magistrate. Also a judge or chairman who presides in court. I clapp'd my peep...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beak

  , or beak-head A piece of brass like a beak, fixed at the head of the ancient galleys, with which ...

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• Birds

  [Sparrow] ...

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• beak-head

  See beak ...

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• Bird's nest

  ·noun ·Alt. of Bird's-nest. ...

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• Bird's-eye

  ·adj Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple. II. Bird's-...

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• Bird's-foot

  ·noun A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, ...

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• Bird's-mouth

  ·noun An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of anot...

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• Bird's-nest

  ·noun The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. ...

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• Bird's-nesting

  ·noun Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents. ...

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• Bird's-tongue

  ·noun The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). ...

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• Bird's Court

  West out of Philip Lane. In Cripplegarte Ward Within (Elmes, 1831), to Little Wood Street (Hatton,17...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bird's Wharf

  South out of Temple Street, west of White Fryers Stairs (Rocque, 1746-Dodsley, 1761). Site occupied...

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• Bird's Yard

  Out of Chick Lane, West Smithfield (P.C. I 732-Strype, ed. 1755-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the ma...

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• jail birds

  Prisoners. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer birds

  Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade. ...

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• bird's nest

  A round top at a mast-head for a look-out station. A smaller crow's nest. Chiefly used in whalers, w...

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• black-birds

  A slang term on the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves. ...

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• ice-birds

  Small sea-fowl in the polar regions. ...

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• newgate birds

  The men sent on board ship from prisons; but the term has also been immemorially used, as applied to...

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• beak-head beam

  For this important timber see cat-beam. ...

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• Bird's-eye maple

  ·- ·see under <<Maple>>. ...

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• bird's-nest fungus

  n. a small fungus of thegenus Cyathus, four species of which occur inQueensland. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• beak-head bulk-head

  The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...

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• birds of a feather

  Rogues of the same gang. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bird's-foot sea-star

  The Palmipes membranaceus, one of the Asterinidæ, with a flat thin pentagonal body, of a bright scar...

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