Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a profile, as of a molding, supposed to resemble the sharp beak of a bird: used especially for drip-moldings, whether to shed water or to give a sharp-edged dark shadow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
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His nose was aquiline, not hooky like a true bird's-beak, but with that bend which seems to give to the human face the clearest indication of individual will.
Dr. Wortle's School Anthony Trollope 1848
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