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Definitions for Beard

[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 . the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body. 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. the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
[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.
[9] Charles Austin, 1874–1948, and his wife Mary, 1876–1958, U.S. historians.
[10] Daniel Carter, 1850–1941, U.S. artist and naturalist: organized the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
[11] James Andrew, 1903–85, U.S. cooking teacher and food writer.
[12] the hair growing on the lower parts of a man's face
[13] any similar growth in animals
[14] a tuft of long hairs in plants such as barley and wheat; awn
[15] the gills of an oyster
[16] a barb, as on an arrow or fish-hook
[17] slang a woman who accompanies a homosexual man to give the impression that he is heterosexual
[18] printing the part of a piece of type that connects the face with the shoulder
[19] to oppose boldly or impertinently
[20] to pull or grasp the beard of

Words related to Beard

imperial, fuzz, brush, stubble, goatee, Vandyke, front, mask, brave, oppose, face, muttonchops

Words nearby Beard

bear-hug, bearable, bearbaiting, bearberry, bearcat, beard, beard moss, beard the lion, beard worm, beard-stroking, bearded

Origin of Beard

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 *bHa er-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1

Other words from Beard

beard·like , adjective
un·beard , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Beard

Old English beard ; related to Old Norse barth , Old High German bart , Latin barba

Synonyms for Beard

Vandyke, bristles, brush, fuzz, goatee, imperial, stubble, Santa Claus, five-o-clock shadow, muttonchops