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Definition of Beard

1. Verb. Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin. "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

2. Noun. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.

3. Noun. A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses.

4. Noun. A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality).

5. Noun. Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals.

6. Noun. Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface.

Definition of Beard

1. n. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

2. v. t. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

Definition of Beard

1. Proper noun. (surname from=Middle English) ¹

2. Noun. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw. ¹

3. Noun. (LGBT slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual. ¹

4. Verb. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw. ¹

5. Verb. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beard

1. to oppose boldly [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Beard

1. 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 gills; to set at defiance. "No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial." (Macaulay) 3. To deprive of the gills; used only of oysters and similar shellfish. Origin: Bearded; Bearding. 1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. 2. The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. 3. 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. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. 7. An imposition; a trick. Beard grass, a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance. Origin: OE. Berd, AS. Beard; akin to Fries. Berd, D. Baard, G. Bart, Lith. Barzda, OSlav. Brada, Pol. Broda, Russ. Boroda, L. Barba, W. Barf. Cf. 1st Barb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beard

bearability bearable bearableness bearably bearbaiting bearbaitings bearberries bearberry bearberry willow bearbind

bearbine bearbines bearcat bearcats bearcub beard lichen beard moss beard the lion in his den beard worm bearded

bearded-mussel bearded darnel bearded dragon bearded dragons bearded iris bearded mussel bearded mussels bearded reedling

Literary usage of Beard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"I add some notes (unfortunately made without references) ; however, they may tend to strengthen the growth of the beard, especially by those clerics who ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Charles beard (Hibbert lecturer, 1883), was educated. In 1838 the university of Giessen bestowed on him the honorary degree of DD in recognition of his ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"BLUE beard THERE was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, ... But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"It consists of a chronic disease of the hair of the beard, characterized by atrophy of the hair-bulb, and by splitting of the hair-substance, ..."

5. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"IKON-beard. Ol*AF the King, one summer morn, Blew a blast on his bugle-horn, ... his brook with its water- Huge and cumbersome was hie frame ; His beard, ..."

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