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| bearded | |
| 1. adj. Having a beard; involving a beard. |  |
| 2. adj. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with). | |
| 3. adj. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type. | |
| beard | |
| 1. n. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | |
| 2. n. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | |
| 3. n. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. | |
| 4. n. The byssus of certain shellfish. | |
| 5. n. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster. | |
| 6. n. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. | |
| 7. n. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn. | |
| the beard of grain | |
| 8. n. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. | |
| 9. n. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. | |
| 10. n. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. | |
| 11. n. (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw. | |
| 13. v. 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. | |
| 14. v. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. | |
| 15. v. To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills. | |
