Meaning

Having a beard; involving a beard..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.
2. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
3. Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
4. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
5. (heraldry) Having barbs of a certain color.
6. (informal, botany, horticulture) Ellipsis of bearded iris.
7. simple past and past participle of beard

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(botany)

(zoology)

1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, https://archive.org/details/satyrsdecimusju00creegoog There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.

Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:

He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, 'It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work.'

bearded mussel

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]

[B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

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• more bearded
• most bearded
• beardeds

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