📖 Definitions of "Beard"
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.
- 3
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- 4
The byssus of certain shellfish.
verb
- 1
To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- 2
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."
- 3
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- 4
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
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