Definition of beard

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

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Beard :: Beard (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies..
Beardless :: Beardless (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat..
Barber :: Barber (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons..
Usnea :: Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests..
Hake''s-dame :: Hake's-dame (n.) See Forkbeard.
Oorial :: Oorial (n.) A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest..
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..
Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat..
Graybeard :: Graybeard (n.) An old man.
Debarb :: Debarb (v. t.) To deprive of the beard.
Barber :: Barber (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
Mustache :: Mustache (n.) That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
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..
Whisker :: Whisker (n.) A hair of the beard.
Needly :: Needly (a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard..
Aristulate :: Aristulate (a.) Having a short beard or awn.
Treebeard :: Treebeard (n.) A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Griffon :: Griffon (n.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the eagle of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir..
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