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BEARD
byssus, beard
(noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
beard
(noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
beard, face fungus, whiskers
(noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man’s face
beard
(noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
beard
(noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
beard
(verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; “Houses bearded the top of the heights”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.
Proper noun
Beard
A surname.
Anagrams
• Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar
Etymology
Noun
beard (plural beards)
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
Verb
beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)
(obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
(LGBT, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
Anagrams
• Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar
Source: Wiktionary
Beard, n. Etym: [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.]
1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
2. (Zoöl.) (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.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
7. An imposition; a trick. [Obs.] Chaucer. 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.
Beard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bearded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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