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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

... hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain: The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk'd ...

— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... could see a brilliant gathering of knights with golden helmets sitting in arm-chairs, the backs of which were decorated with golden crowns. At the head of the table sat a man who seemed head and shoulders taller than the rest; his beard reached to his waist, like the beard of Moses or Joshua, and he held a hammer ...

— In Midsummer Days and Other Tales • August Strindberg

... disguised him in a beard and a loose set of clothes, and a billy-cock hat, and said that would do, as long as he kept at a prudent distance from the lady's eye. They then took a cab and drove out of Hillsborough. When they had proceeded about two miles up the valley, Ransome stopped the cab, ...

— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade

... thing alive about him, except that slow curl and uncurl of the laboring back muscles. Janoo from the bed was breathing seventy to the minute; Azizun held her hands before her eyes; and old Suddhoo, fingering at the dirt that had got into his white beard, was crying to himself. The horror of it was that the creeping, crawly thing made no sound—only crawled! And, remember, this lasted for ten minutes, while the terrier whined, and Azizun shuddered, and Janoo gasped ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... later the authorities of Lincoln's Inn (33 Hen. VIII.) ordered that no member of the society "being in commons, or at his repast, should wear a beard; and whoso did, to pay double commons or repasts in this house during such time as he should ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

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