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▸ noun: The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
▸ noun: The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
▸ noun: The byssus of certain shellfish.
▸ noun: The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
▸ noun: In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
▸ noun: (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
▸ noun: Long, hair-like feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey
▸ noun: A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
▸ noun: The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
▸ noun: That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
▸ noun: (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
▸ noun: (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
▸ noun: One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
▸ noun: (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
▸ verb: (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
▸ verb: (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
▸ verb: (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
▸ noun: A surname transferred from the nickname.
▸ noun: A place name:
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
▸ noun: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.
Similar:
byssus,
face fungus,
Whiskers,
jaw beard,
sideburns,
Newgate fringe,
neckbeard,
chin curtain,
Shenandoah beard,
goatee,
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