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Beard   /bɪrd/   Listen
Beard

noun
1.
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.  Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers.
2.
A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses.
3.
A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality).
4.
Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals.
5.
Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface.  Synonym: byssus.
verb
(past & past part. bearded; pres. part. bearding)
1.
Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin.



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"Beard" Quotes from Famous Books



... he, "put up your whittle, I'm no designed to try its mettle; But if I did, I wad be kittle To be mislear'd; I wad na mind it, no that spittle Out-owre my beard." ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... scored with anxiety, the prominent light-coloured and glassy eyes staring with perplexity under bushy brows, which are as carefully combed as the hair of his head, the large obstinate nose with its challenging tilt and wide war-breathing nostrils, the broad white moustache and sudden pointed beard sloping inward; nor can one listen to the deep, tired, and ghostly voice slowly uttering the laborious ideas of his troubled mind with the somewhat painful pronunciation of the elocutionist (he makes chapell of Chapel); nor mark his languorous movements and the slow swaying ...
— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

... prime of life, with a mass of jet black hair and a black beard that swept to his waist, a nose like a hawk's, and a pair of dark blue eyes that fixed themselves on Nat's with a look ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

... him, too!" 'Twas so, The half-relenting ANGUS, low Spake in his snowy beard. "Bold can he speak, and fairly ride: I warrant him a warrior tried." A foeman to be feared, A leader to be trusted, seemed This dark, cold chief, and few had dreamed Of such strange severance. And any not ignoble eye In sorrow more than mockery ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 6, 1890 • Various

... answered that he had, Atlas declared that he must see the head to convince him. So Perseus put a hand over his shoulder, and drew it up by its snaky hair; but no sooner had Atlas cast his eyes on it than he turned into a mountain, his white beard and hair becoming the snowy peak, and his garments the woods and forests. And there he still stands on the west coast of Africa, and all our modern ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge


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