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Beard vs Feard - What's the difference?

beard | feard |

As a proper noun beard

is .

As a verb feard is

(archaic) (fear).

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

    *

    feard

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (fear)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Joseph Hocking, title=The Birthright, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Alexander Barclay, title=The Ship of Fools, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1609, author=Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, title=The Faithful Shepherdess, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more? }}