These are the meanings of the letters BEAKFUL when you unscramble them.
- Baulk (n. & v.)
See Balk.
- Bleak (a.)
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
- Bleak (a.)
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
- Bleak (a.)
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- Bleak (a.)
Without color; pale; pallid.
- Fable (n.)
A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
- Fable (n.)
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Fable (n.)
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- Fable (n.)
The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
- Fable (v. i.)
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
- Fable (v. t.)
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
- Flake (n.)
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
- Flake (n.)
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
- Flake (n.)
A paling; a hurdle.
- Flake (n.)
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- Flake (n.)
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
- Flake (n.)
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- Flake (v. i.)
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
- Flake (v. t.)
To form into flakes.
- Fluke (n.)
A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.
- Fluke (n.)
An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
- Fluke (n.)
An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
- Fluke (n.)
One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
- Fluke (n.)
The European flounder. See Flounder.
- Fluke (n.)
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.