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beard | bard |

As a proper noun beard

is .

As a noun bard is

poet, bard.

beard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
  • The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
  • The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
  • The byssus of certain shellfish.
  • The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
  • In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
  • (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
    • the beard of grain
  • A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
  • That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
  • (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
  • (LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

    • Derived terms

    * bearded

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awn

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
  • To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
    • Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
  • * Macaulay
    • No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
  • * Barnaby , December 6, 1943
    • We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
  • * Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    • . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
  • To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
  • To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

    • Derived terms

    * beard the lion, beard the lion in his den

    Anagrams

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    bard

    English

    Etymology 1

    (15th c.) from (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia bard) (en noun)
  • A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  • * 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.
    • But the divine power cannot be jealous (nay, according to the proverb, 'bards tell a lie'),
  • (by extension) A poet.
    • the bard of Avon
    Derived terms
    * bardic

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) barde. English since the late 15th century.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  • Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  • (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  • The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  • Specifically, Peruvian bark.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover a horse in defensive armor.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 29:
    • The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded , consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
  • (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

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