Beard :: Beard (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some bird.

Beard :: Beard (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster..

Beard :: Beard (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies..

Beard :: Beard (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain..

Beard :: Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out..

Beard :: Beard (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle..

Beard :: Beard (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt..

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Bearded :: Bearded (imp. & p. p.) of Bear.

Bearded :: Bearded (a.) Having a beard.

Beardie :: Beardie (n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.

Bearding :: Bearding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear.

Beardless :: Beardless (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

Beardless :: Beardless (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat..

Beardlessness :: Beardlessness (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Forkbeard :: Forkbeard (n.) A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard..

Forkbeard :: Forkbeard (n.) The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

Graybeard :: Graybeard (n.) An old man.

Headbeard :: Headbeard (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave..

Seabeard :: Seabeard (n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Treebeard :: Treebeard (n.) A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

Whitebeard :: Whitebeard (n.) An old man; a graybeard.

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