- a thick growth of hair on the face, especially on an adult man, often including a mustache: He's been growing out his beard for a couple of months, and it's filling in nicely.
- a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting the thick growth of hair on the human face, such as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
- a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
- a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
- Also called bev·el neck [bev-uhl nek] /ˈbɛv əl ˌnɛk/ .Printing.
- the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body.
- the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder.
- the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
- a romantic partner chosen to conceal a person's sexual orientation, especially that of a gay or lesbian person.
- to oppose boldly; defy: It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
- to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man.
- to supply with a beard.
- to act as a romantic partner to someone in order to conceal their sexual orientation, especially that of a gay or lesbian person.
- and his wife Mary, 1876–1958, U.S. historians.
- U.S. artist and naturalist: organized the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
- U.S. cooking teacher and food writer.
- the hair growing on the lower parts of a man's face
- any similar growth in animals
- a tuft of long hairs in plants such as barley and wheat; awn
- the gills of an oyster
- a barb, as on an arrow or fish-hook
- a woman who accompanies a homosexual man to give the impression that he is heterosexual
- the part of a piece of type that connects the face with the shoulder
- to oppose boldly or impertinently
- to pull or grasp the beard of
