[
UK
/bˈiəd/
]
[ US /ˈbɪɹd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪɹd/ ]
NOUN
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
VERB
-
go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
Houses bearded the top of the heights
How To Use beard In A Sentence
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
- ‘Welcome to Scotland, laddie,’ growls Getch in his best through-the-beard burr.
- His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge — equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts. John Caldigate
- In recent years many have forsaken their turbans and beards, claiming it counts against them when trying to find a job. Times, Sunday Times
- From his shiny, greasy, biker-looking jeans to his short, greying beard, he was muscle and bone.
- Not that he is preening: he is careless about his blond good looks, a scruffy hipster beard giving maturity to his rather angelic face. Times, Sunday Times
- He wore a ragged grey beard. Times, Sunday Times
- The graybeards out there will remember that the practice of renting computers is decades old.
- He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
