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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)
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
/ bɪəd /
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
/ bîrd /
- 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.
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Derived Forms
- ˈbearded, adjective
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Other Words From
- beard·like adjective
- un·beard verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beard1
First recorded before 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with Dutch baard, German Bart, Late Latin Langobardi “Long-beards (name of the Lombards),” Crimean Gothic bars; akin to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzdà, Old Church Slavonic brada, Russian borodá
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beard1
Old English beard ; related to Old Norse barth , Old High German bart , Latin barba
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