Beaver vs X - What's the difference?
beaver | x |
An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
(coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
The fur of the beaver.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
The lower face-guard of a helmet.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
*:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
*1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
*:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
*:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a proper noun beaver
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.beaver
English
(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.Noun
(en-noun)- a brown beaver slouched over his eyes