01 n. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
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The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
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The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.(Zool.)
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3.
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.(Bot.)
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A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
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That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
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That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.(Print.)
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An imposition; a trick.[Obs.]
Phrases & compounds
Beard grass —
a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon.
To one's beard —
to one's face; in open defiance.