whale head (hwalhed)

A remarkable grallatorial bird of Africa, related to the herons and storks: so called on account of the size of the head and monstrous shape of the beak; the whale-headed stork, or shoebill, Balæniceps rex, the only representative of the family Balæni cipidæ. See cut under Balænicipidæ. whale-headed (hwal'hed"ed), a. Having a large heavy head suggestive of a whale's: noting the shoebill. See whale - head. Encyc. Brit., III. 759. whale-hunter (hwāl'hun"tér), n. A whaleman. IMG:content-2251.png:[blocks in formation] he was come as far towards the north as commonly the whale - hunters vse to trauell. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 4.