Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.
5. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
8. Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.

Example Sentences

At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.

the beard of grain

While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.

To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.

Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?

No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.

Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.

Word Forms

• beards
• bearding
• bearded

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