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Bearded
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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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:
before 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with German Bart, Dutch baard, Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars, Latin barba (> Welsh barf), Lithuanian barzdà, OCS brada, Russian borodá; European Indo-European *bHaer-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1
before 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with German Bart, Dutch baard, Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars, Latin barba (> Welsh barf), Lithuanian barzdà, OCS brada, Russian borodá; European Indo-European *bHaer-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1
Related forms
beard·like, adjective
un·beard, verb (used with object)
Synonyms
7. confront, brave, dare, face, challenge.
7. confront, brave, dare, face, challenge.
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Word Origin & History
beard
O.E. beard "beard," from W.Gmc. *barthaz (cf. O.Fris. berd, 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)
EXPANDface. 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).
COLLAPSE
"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]
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Science Dictionary
beard  (bîrd) Pronunciation Key
A tuft or group of hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as barley and wheat. The individual strands of a beard are attached to a sepal or petal. |
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