pelican

Any of various large, web-footed birds of the genus Pelecanus primarily of tropical and warm regions, having a long straight bill from which hangs a distensible pouch of skin used for catching and holding fish.

A large piscivorous natatorial bird of the family Pelecanidæ and genus Pelecanus, having an enormously distensible gular pouch.

A chemical glass vessel or alembic with a tubulated capital, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out and enter again at the belly of the cucurbit.

A six-pounder culverin.

A kind of shot or shell.

In dental surg., an instrument for extracting teeth, curved at the end like the beak of a pelican.

A hook, somewhat in the shape of a pelican’s bill, so arranged that it can be easily slipped by taking a ring or shackle from the point of the hook.

In heraldry, a bird with talons and beak like a bird of prey, but always represented with the wings indorsed and as bending her neck in the attitude of wounding her breast with her beak.

Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.