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Definition of Graybeard

1. Noun. A man who is very old.

Definition of Graybeard

1. n. An old man.

Definition of Graybeard

1. Noun. Alternative spelling of greybeard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graybeard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graybeard

Literary usage of Graybeard

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

1. Salt Glazed Stoneware, Germany, Flanders, England and the United States by Edwin Atlee Barber (1907)
"24, BROWN STONEWARE " graybeard ' (7| inches in height), Bouffioux, about 1700. 25. BROWN STONEWARE JUG (5J inches ¡n height). Yellow Relief Designs. ..."

2. The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North by James Baldwin (1912)
"... CHAPTER III THE graybeard AND HIS SON AL night the Minstrel rode wildly towards the South Country, never looking behind him, never pausing to rest. ..."

3. The Right of the United States of America to the North-eastern Boundary by Albert Gallatin (1840)
"That they have just been informed that John Hutchinson, Charles graybeard, and Jasper Pierce, Indians resident on the Cattaraugus reservation, have affixed ..."

4. The Case of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York: Illustrated by Facts by Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, Society of Friends (1840)
"That they have just been informed that John Hutchinson, Charles graybeard, and Jasper Pierce, Indians resident on the Cattaraugus reservation, have affixed ..."

5. The Browne Readers by Ruby Wrede Browne (1918)
"graybeard sat down at the table, grumbling and growling to himself. ... graybeard surely liked apple pie. It did not take graybeard any longer to eat his ..."

6. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities ... in the Museum of the Royal by Royal Irish Academy Museum, William Robert Wilde (1857)
"5, a graybeard, 9| inches high, with a star device beneath the mask, similar to No. 1; the gray stripe down the centre is very well marked. No. ..."

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