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Beards

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

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noun
  1. 1

    Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

  2. 2

    The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

  3. 3

    The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

  4. 4

    The byssus of certain shellfish.

verb
  1. 1

    To grow hair on the chin and jaw.

  2. 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. 3

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

  4. 4

    To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Beards"

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byssusnounThe 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
whiskersnounWhiskers or vibrissae (: vibrissa; ) are a type of stiff, functional hair used by most therian mammals to sense their environment.
vandykesnounA 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.
mustachesnounUS standard spelling of moustache. [A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.]
goateesnounA beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
sideburnsnounFacial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.
dreadlocksnounA 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.
hairdosnounA hairstyle.
hairnoun(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
ponytailsnounA hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.
mulletsnounA 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.
mohawksnounA 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.
hairstylesnouna 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.
shaggynounHaving long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.
coifsnounA hairdo.

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