Word Finder - bearded

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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.

At a later time the bearded type prevails.

In early art the adult Hercules, is bearded, but not long-haired.

On the day appointed, forty gray- bearded, honest old men stood before the caliph.

Pogonatus (the "bearded"), son of Constans II., was emperor from 668 to 685.

Dean opened the door to a bearded man holding a small overnight bag.

It may be the Spanish word for the hanging branches of a vine which strike root in the ground, or the name may have been given from a species of bearded fig-tree.

But Fulk le Rechin (the Cross-looking), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the chcitellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur (25th of February 1067) and Angers (4 th of April), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sable.

In archaic art he was portrayed as a full-grown and bearded man, clothed in a long chiton, and often wearing a cap (Kvvij) or a broad-brimmed hat (74Tao-os), and winged boots.

About this time a new dominion was founded by Louis the Bearded, who by purchase, gift or marriage obtained several counties in Thuringia.

Varenus Diphilus, a freedman, a magister herculaneus, were found in situ in 1883, and in 1902 two vases of statues erected by Diphilus, as inscriptions showed, in honour of his patron, and a bas-relief of bearded Hercules entirely draped in a long tunic with a lion's skin on his shoulders.

Caelus is sometimes associated with Terra, represented in plastic art as an old, bearded man holding a robe stretched out over his head in the form of an arch.

A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.

In archaic art Hephaestus is generally represented as bearded, though occasionally a younger beardless type is found, as on a vase (in the British Museum), on which he appears as a young man assisting Athena in the creation of Pandora.

The cultivated varieties are extremely numerous, some kinds being adapted for marshy land, others for growth on the hill A, spikelet (enlarged) B, bearded variety sides.

In works of art Boreas was represented as bearded, powerful, draped against cold, and winged.

Dying in 1413 he was followed by his son, Louis, called the Bearded, a restless and quarrelsome prince, who before his accession had played an important part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella was the queen of King Charles VI.

Early in his reign he had made a determined enemy of Godfrey the Bearded duke of Henrj s Internal upper Lorraine, who, in 1044, conspired against him policy.

It is further said that in some cases at least the English vessels were "bearded," that is to say, strengthened by iron bands across the bows for ramming, and that they sank many of the French.

The articles chiefly cultivated are rice, millet, beans, ginseng (at Songdo), cotton, hemp, oil-seeds, bearded wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, and sweet and Irish potatoes.

But though often at court, he seems to have been no sympathiser with Norman oppression, and is even said to have bearded the king himself.

Dirk allied himself with Godfrey the Bearded of Lorraine, who was at war with the emperor, and his territory was invaded by a powerful imperial fleet and army (1047).

Artistically he was represented mostly either as a youth of soft, nearly feminine form, or as a bearded and draped man, but frequently also as an infant, with reference to his birth or to his bringing up in "Nysa."

Prematurely born at Buda on the ist of July 1506, it required all the resources of medical science to keep the sickly child alive, yet he developed so precociously that at the age of thirteen he was well bearded and moustached, while at eighteen his hair was silvery white.

Birds of prey include the bearded vulture, aasvogel and several varieties of eagles, hawks, falcons and owls.

This is expressed on the Horologium of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, called the Temple or Tower of the Winds, at Athens, where Boreas is represented as a bearded man of stern aspect, thickly clad, and wearing strong buskins; he blows into a conch shell, which he holds in his hand as a sign of his tempestuous character.

Wheats of dry countries and of those exposed to severe winds have, says De Vilmorin, narrow leaves, pliant straw, bearded ears, and velvety chaff - characteristics which enable them to resist wind and drought.

G.) From Egypt the figure of the sphinx passed to Assyria, where it appears with a bearded male head on cylinders; the female sphinx, lying down and furnished with wings, is first found in the palace of Esar-haddon (7th cent.

Sphinxes have been found in Phoenicia, one at least being winged and another bearded.

Among the birds of prey may be mentioned, besides the cinereous and bearded vultures, the Spanish vulture(Gyps occidentalis), the African or Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopteras), which is found among all the mountains of the Peninsula, the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila Adalberti), the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus), the southern eagle-owl (Bubo atheniensis), and various kites and falcons.

In 1252 the town, which had been raised from its ashes by Henry I., the Bearded, became the capital of a principality of Glogau, and in 1482 town and district were united to the Bohemian crown.

A bearded counter man in bare feet pointed them off in the right direction.

Linked at south by tall round headed archway incorporating carved bearded head.

June may bring elegant visitors such as spoonbill, whilst the breeding birds include avocet, bittern and bearded tit.

Bearded barbet -- Fairly common and recorded most days. Greater honeyguide -- A single juvenile at Abuko on the 18th.

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A dancing man wearing only a body stocking, a strategically-placed bag and a bearded mask, was especially popular with the onlookers.

Seals Web Page Bearded Seals are a non-migratory Arctic species that feed on mollusks including clams.

Addison's Disease can also occur in Bearded collies.

Unlike the bearded dragons tested, chameleon skin gives more uniform results, regardless of where on the body the samples come from.

He remembered, with the possible exception of the bearded german, or anything to help me truly thankful.

He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying an hourglass.

This popular, tall bearded iris is perfect for a sunny, well-drained border.

The meadows are home to some beautiful flora and fauna such as the bearded rhododendron, dwarf juniper and other rare alpine flowers.

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Pools are periodically dug in selected dune slacks on the Sefton Coast in order to provide habitat for threatened species including lesser bearded stonewort.

It has been found to contain lesser bearded stonewort which is a priority species for Northern Ireland.

We have a 7 year old bearded tit still going strong.

Greater love hath no bearded little troll for Quebec than he live in the Beltway.

There is another sturgeon being kept in captivity in a pond by a heavily bearded and formally unqualified naturalist living near Loch Ness.

The area provides good walking, climbing and riding while the peaks are the realm of eagles and bearded vultures.