To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
To understand.
To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
To be apprehensive; to fear.
To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
Seize with the beak.
To play truant.
Strike with the beak.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
A toe clip.
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
cocaine.
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.