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beard
1[ beerd ]
noun
- a thick growth of hair on the face, especially on an adult man, often including a mustache:
He's been growing out his beard for a couple of months, and it's filling in nicely.
- Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting the thick growth of hair on the human face, such as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
- Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
- a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
- Also called bev·el neck [bev, -, uh, l nek]. Printing.
- the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body.
- British. the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder.
- the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
- Slang. a romantic partner chosen to conceal a person's sexual orientation, especially that of a gay or lesbian person.
verb (used with object)
- to oppose boldly; defy:
It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
Synonyms: , , ,
Antonyms: ,
- to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of:
The hoodlums bearded the old man.
- to supply with a beard.
verb (used without object)
- Slang. to act as a romantic partner to someone in order to conceal their sexual orientation, especially that of a gay or lesbian person.
Beard
2[ beerd ]
noun
- Charles Austin, 1874–1948, and his wife Mary, 1876–1958, U.S. historians.
- Daniel Carter, 1850–1941, U.S. artist and naturalist: organized the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
- James Andrew, 1903–85, U.S. cooking teacher and food writer.
beard
/ ²úɪə»å /
noun
- the hair growing on the lower parts of a man's face
- any similar growth in animals
- a tuft of long hairs in plants such as barley and wheat; awn
- the gills of an oyster
- a barb, as on an arrow or fish-hook
- slang.a woman who accompanies a homosexual man to give the impression that he is heterosexual
- printing the part of a piece of type that connects the face with the shoulder
verb
- to oppose boldly or impertinently
- to pull or grasp the beard of
beard
/ ²úî°ù»å /
- A tuft or group of hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as barley and wheat. The individual strands of a beard are attached to a sepal or petal.
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú±ð²¹°ù»å±ð»å, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú±ð²¹°ù»å·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²ú±ð²¹°ù»å verb (used with object)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of beard1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of beard1
Example Sentences
It’s not clear the ex to whom she is referring, but she famously dated and was engaged to NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers — another brawny, bearded man.
Mr Combs was led into a wood-panelled courtroom on Friday in New York's southern district federal court wearing a greenish-tan prison jumpsuit, with overgrown grey hair and a beard.
The picture looks a bit dimmer without the bearded, smiling, swerving Kupp.
Not all of us can grow a beautiful thick beard, OK, some of us, this is all we got.
He was, to use a phrase he coined 10 years later, “singeing the beard of the king of Spain,†raiding his way up the Spanish territories along the Pacific.
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