beard
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noun- 1.
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- 2.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
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The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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The byssus of certain shellfish.
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The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
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(entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
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(botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
the beard of grain
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Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
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A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
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The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
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That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
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(dated)(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- 2.
(transitive)To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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(transitive)To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
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(transitive)To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
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(intransitive)(intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
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(ambitransitive, slang)(LGBTQ, 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.
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bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. 2 cog Cognate with beird, bearde, biard, Boart, burd, Bårt, baard, Bart, Baart, biöt,, barð, bart, bard, barde (edge, rim), bart (moustache), bars; also barba, bārda, barzda,,, brada,,, bráda (beard). barb.