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Beard   /bɪrd/   Listen
noun
Beard  n.  
1.
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
(b)
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
(c)
The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
(d)
The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
(e)
The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
(f)
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
3.
(Bot.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
4.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
5.
That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
6.
(Print.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
7.
An imposition; a trick. (Obs.)
Beard grass (Bot.), a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon.
To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance.



verb
Beard  v. t.  (past & past part. bearded; pres. part. bearding)  
1.
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
2.
To oppose to the face; to set at defiance. "No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial."
3.
To deprive of the gills; used only of oysters and similar shellfish.






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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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