📖 Definitions of "Beards"
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Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
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The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
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The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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The byssus of certain shellfish.
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To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
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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."
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To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
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To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Beards"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| byssusnoun | The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured. |
| face fungusnoun | (medicine) Tinea faciei, a fungal infection of the face |
| whiskersnoun | Whiskers or vibrissae (: vibrissa; ) are a type of stiff, functional hair used by most therian mammals to sense their environment. |
| vandykesnoun | A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century. |
| mustachesnoun | US standard spelling of moustache. [A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.] |
| goateesnoun | A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. |
| sideburnsnoun | Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin. |
| dreadlocksnoun | A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings. |
| turbansnoun | (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head. |
| hairdosnoun | A hairstyle. |
| hairnoun | (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. |
| ponytailsnoun | A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head. |
| mulletsnoun | A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back. |
| cornrowsnoun | (also called canerows) a style of three-strand braids in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to make a continuous, raised row. |
| mohawksnoun | A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations. |
| hairstylesnoun | a title used for international editions of a professional hairdressing magazine originally published in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, under the name Peluquerias. |
| skullcapsnoun | (anatomy) The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain. |
| muttonchopsnoun | (figurative, in the plural) A facial hairstyle consisting of long, usually shaped sideburns extending well below the earlobes without a beard. |
| shaggynoun | Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool. |
| coifsnoun | A hairdo. |
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