Definition of beard

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

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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..
Shave :: Shave (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat..
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..
Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them
Barbate :: Barbate (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
Bearded :: Bearded (a.) Having a beard.
Aristate :: Aristate (a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned..
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Beard :: Beard (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle..
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.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies..
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..
Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..
Whisker :: Whisker (n.) A hair of the beard.
Barber :: Barber (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons..
Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
Noon-flower :: Noon-flower (n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday..
Matamata :: Matamata (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.
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