beaked, ppl. a.
(biːkt)
Also 7 beck'd.
[f. beak n.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 J. 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{ddd}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. 1877 Encycl. 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.
| 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 Small, searching eyes, a beaked nose, and white bristly hair. |