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beard
/bɪɹd/
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What does beard mean?
noun
- 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.
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noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- 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.
- (slang) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- (slang) One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- (slang) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
verb
- To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (slang) 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.
- (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
- A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɪɹd/
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“I don’t want to be a man. O Wendy’s mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!”
His weird eyes assumed a greedy expression, and his unkempt beard and mustache twitched with the muscles of his mouth and chin.
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I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.
His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.
When he straightened himself up to greet us, drops of perspiration were rolling from his thick nose down onto his curly beard.