Beard

bērd, n. the hair that grows on the chin and adjacent parts of a grown man's face: the tuft on the lower jaw of a goat, seal, .: the barbel of the cod, loach, .; prickles on the ears of corn: the barb of an arrow: the gills of oysters, .— v.t. to take by the beard: to oppose to the face.— adj. Beard′ed , having a beard: prickly: barbed.— n. Beard′-gra , a kind of bearded gra .— adj. Beard′le . [A.S.; W. barf , Ger. bart , Ru . boroda , L. barb a .]