Word Finder - beard

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Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

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The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

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The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

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The byssus of certain shellfish.

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The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.

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In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

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Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

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the beard of grain

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A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

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The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.

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That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

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That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

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A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

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To grow hair on the chin and jaw.

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To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

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Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

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To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

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Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.

These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows.

He had a beard.

On the importance attached to the beard, see Ency.

In his eyes the beard was a symbol of the old regime, and as such it must be removed.

They have very little beard.

The beard is frequently dyed with henna and indigo for much the same reasons as in Europe by elderly men; this is entirely optional.

Old men shave the head and sometimes grow a beard.

Matthian system, desired, as they expressed it, " a king whose beard they could hold in their fists," and they found a monarch after their own heart in Wladislaus Jagiello, since 1471 king of Bohemia, who as Wladislaus II.

Khammurabi and the sun-god Shamash, on the former's famous code of laws, have the same features and almost the same frizzled beard, and, according to Meyer, the king in claiming supremacy over Sumer and Akkad wears the costume of the lands.

They may be generally described as of a stout, active, well-proportioned form; of a brown but never of an intensely dark complexion, with black, coarse, lank and abundant hair, and a little more beard than is possessed by the Siamese.

I bet his bushy beard will hard to forge!

The eyes and skin are dark, the beard often well developed, the nose broad and flat, the lips coarse, and jaws heavy.

Personally Roger was of tall and powerful body, with long fair hair and full beard.

Guy, has beard, can read, report him at once!

The great head itself has snakes entwined within its beard, wings above its ears, beetling brows and a heavy mustache.

In the winter coat the hair is long and pendent, elongated into a short beard on the sides of the lower jaw behind the chin; and it is also longer than elsewhere on the neck and the chest; at the base of the long hair is a thick growth of short and woolly under-fur.

He had blue or grey eyes, and fair hair and beard, which turned white through the hardships he endured in Japan.

His thin face with its short, thick black beard looked angry.

It covers your head and body completely, turning you into a cartoon leprechaun complete with a beard.

The hair on the lower jaw, throat and chest is long and straight, and hangs down like a beard or dewlap, though there is no loose fold of skin in this situation.

But the pure Laos are still distinguished by the high cheek-bones, small flat nose, oblique eyes, wide mouth, black lank hair, sparse beard, and yellow complexion of the Thai and other branches of the Mongol family.

Sheep and goats are very nearly related, but the former never have a beard on the chin of the males, which are devoid of a strong odour; and their horns are typically of a different type.

It was in 1857 that Bayard Taylor saw him, and carried away the impression of a man "tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard and eyes of southern darkness."

He proposed founding a new sect with the help of Franklin, who after leaving his shop ridiculed him for his long square beard and for keeping the seventh day.

A thin moustache is common, the beard, if present, is plucked out, and the hair of the head is black, coarse and cut short.

A portrait, painted in middle age, now in the church of Melhus, near Trondhjem, represents him in canonicals, with deep red beard and hair, the latter waved and silky, and a head of massive proportions.

The third, however, was made of the sound of a cat's footsteps, a man's beard, the roots of a mountain, a fish's breath and a bird's spittle.

Thickness of skin, masking the muscles, has been thought the cause of a peculiar heaviness in the outlines of body and face; the complexion varies from yellow-brown to chocolate (about 40 to 43 in the anthropological scale); eyes black; straight coarse glossy black hair; beard and moustache scanty.

The beard is sparse, and, with the exception of the moustache, which is sometimes worn, especially in central Tibet, it is plucked out with tweezers.

So does a magnificent drawing of a head of a nonagenarian with a flowing beard who sat to him at Antwerp, together with a picture from the same head in the character of St Jerome; the drawing is now at Vienna, the picture at Lisbon.

The young man ran his fingers through his beard.

His eyes were small and restless, his nose hooked, he had a beard and moustaches of imposing length.

It is in the face, however, that we find specially distinctive traits, namely, in the eyes, the eyelashes, the cheekbones and the beard.

The;sakis, which form the genus Pithecia, are specially characterized by their long and generally bushy tails, distinct whiskers and beard, and the usually elongated hair on the crown of the head, which may either radiate from a point in the centre, or be divided by a median parting.

In this ruminant, which is of a dark-brown colour, the relatively smooth black horns diverge outwards in a manner resembling those of the bharal among the sheep rather than in goat-fashion; and, in fact, this tur, which has only a very short beard, is so bharal-like that it is commonly called by sportsmen the Caucasian bharal.

The hair rising from the forehead falls in thick waves on each side of the face and descends nearly to the shoulder; the beard is short and close, the face square and massive, the eyes deep set under overhanging brows, the mouth well formed with settled calm about the lips.

Their hair is dark brown or black, straight, wavy or curly; the beard is thin, the face broad, the profile not prominent, the eyes large and expressive, the nose somewhat flattened, the lips thick, the teeth excellent in shape and of a pearly whiteness.

The people of Amar are represented on the Egyptian monuments with yellow skin, blue eyes, red eyebrows and beard, whence it has been conjectured that they were akin to the Libyans (Sayce, Expositor, July 1888).

His face was well-proportioned, with brown eyes, aquiline nose, thick and red lips, high-coloured cheeks, and prominent chin sparsely covered with a tawny beard.

The merest suspicion of unorthodox opinions, the possession of foreign newspapers, the wearing of a beard or an anonymous denunciation, sufficed for the arrest and condemnation of a man to years of imprisonment, while the attendibili, or persons under police surveillance liable to imprisonment without trial at any moment, numbered 50,000.

He was born with horns, a goat's beard and feet and a tail, his person being completely covered with hair.

Sometimes he has goat's feet and horns, curly hair and a long beard, half animal, half man; sometimes he is a handsome youth, with long flowing hair, only characterized by horns just beginning to grow, the shepherd's crook and pipe.

One of the flags bore the image of a man, without moustaches or beard, dressed in a costume and helmet recalling those of the Circassians.

In some places the oblique Mongolian eye is noticed, and (together with certain Indo-Chinese customs) there is often a scantiness of beard and general "Malay" look, which increases westwards, and seems to imply relations with the archipelago subsequent to the departure thence of the pure Polynesians.

In appearance Frederick was a man of well-proportioned, medium stature, with flowing yellow hair and a reddish beard.

In person he was tall and had a long beard; his voice was sonorous, and his eyes flashed fire.

His hair is abundant, black, lank and coarse, but the beard is scanty, and usually plucked out, which gives him an effeminate appearance.

As a race they exhibit manifest evidences of their Ural-Altaic or Mongolic descent in their short stature, absence of beard, oblique eyes, broad face, low forehead and small mouth.

Knox was a rather small man, with a well-knit body; he had a powerful face, with dark blue eyes under a ridge of eyebrow, high cheek-bones, and a long black beard which latterly turned grey.

At forty a man generally lets his beard grow its full length, and cherishes it much; part of a Persians religious exercises is the combing of his beard.