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beard⋅ed

  [beer-did]
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–adjective
1. having a beard.
2. having a hairlike growth or tuft, as certain wheats.
3. having a barb, as a fishhook.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME beerdid. See beard, -ed 3

Related forms:
beard⋅ed⋅ness, noun
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beard

  [beerd]
–noun
1. the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
2. Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
3. Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
4. a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
5. Also called bevel neck. Printing.
a. the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body.
b. British. the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder.
c. the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
–verb (used with object)
6. to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man.
7. to oppose boldly; defy: It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
8. to supply with a beard.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME berd, OE beard; c. G Bart, D baard, LL Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Goth bars, L barba (> Welsh barf), Lith barzdà, OCS brada, Russ borodá; European IE *bHaer-dhā, perh. akin to barley 1

Related forms:
beardlike, adjective

Synonyms:
7. confront, brave, dare, face, challenge.
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beard   (bîrd)   
n.  

  1. The hair on a man's chin, cheeks, and throat.

  2. A hairy or hairlike growth such as that on or near the face of certain mammals.

  3. A tuft or group of hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as barley and wheat.

  4. One who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another.

  5. Printing The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face. Also called neck.

tr.v.   beard·ed, beard·ing, beards

  1. To furnish with a beard.

  2. To confront boldly.


[Middle English berd, from Old English beard; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots.]
beard'less adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

beard 
O.E. beard "beard," from W.Gmc. *barthaz (cf. M.Du. baert, Ger. bart), seemingly from PIE *bhar-dha "beard" (cf. O.C.S. brada, Lith. barzda, and perhaps L. barba "beard"). The verb is from M.E. phrase rennen in berd "oppose openly," on the same notion as modern slang get in (someone's) face. Pubic hair sense is from 1600s; in the 1811 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," the phrase beard-splitter is defined as, "A man much given to wenching" (see beaver).
"The Grecian beard was curly; the Roman, trimmed; but in the Roman Empire shaving became general about 450 B.C., partly for greater safety in close combat, not to be grasped by the beard. When Pope Leo III shaved, in 795, the Roman Catholic clergy followed his practice, and still generally do." [Shipley, p.28]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: beard
Pronunciation: 'bi(&)rd
Function: noun
: the hair that grows on a man's face often excluding the mustache —beard·ed /-&d/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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