Definitions for beards

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beards beard

Spelling: [beerd]

IPA: /bɪərd/

Beards is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in beards (abders).

Definitions for beards

noun

1. the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
2. Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, 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.
3. Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
4. a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
5. Also called bevel neck. Printing. the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body. British. 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.
6. Charles Austin, 1874–1948, and his wife Mary, 1876–1958, U.S. historians.
7. Daniel Carter, 1850–1941, U.S. artist and naturalist: organized the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
8. James Andrew, 1903–85, U.S. cooking teacher and food writer.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of:
2. to oppose boldly; defy:
3. to supply with a beard.

Origin of beards

before 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with German Bart, Dutch baard, Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars, Latin barba (> Wels

Examples for beards

Hauchard converted to Islam in high school at 17, and is said to have suddenly begun wearing a beard and djellaba.

The hands of Hank Rainer fell suddenly, but now lower than his beard.

Look you, Sir; a beard is something in itself; a beard is half the doctor.

But then, if people grew savage, they might pull my beard out by the roots.

I would not let the smallest child stroke his father's beard roughly.

Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

In his father's face this could not be detected, on account of the beard.

In the video his face is a little thinner, his beard ever so slightly longer.

One of them fetched Manuel, nicknamed Barba (Spanish for beard), who was, of course, clean shaven.

“It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.