n. [ OE. berd, AS. beard; akin to Fries. berd, D. baard, G. bart, Lith. barzda, OSlav. brada, Pol. broda, Russ. boroda, L. barba, W. barf. Cf. 1st Barb. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Beard grass (Bot.),
To one's beard,
v. t.
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having a beard. “Bearded fellow.” Shak. “Bearded grain.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bearded vulture,
Bearded eagle
Bearded tortoise. (Zool.)
n. [ From Beard, n. ] (Zool.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. The state or quality of being destitute of beard. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. prenom.
n. The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. any plant of the genus
n. (Zool.)
n. An old man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a man who is old.
n. Any of various plants of the genus
n. a fat-bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of
n. (Bot.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by
n. An old man; a graybeard. [ 1913 Webster ]