BEARD

(bēerd). [Sax., Eng.] Syn. Bar′ba , L.; Barbe , Fr.; Bart , Ger., Dan.; Baard , Dut. The hair of the lips and chin; but appr., only the last—that on each lip being distinguished, in toilet-nomenclature, by a separate name. In popular botany and zoology , any beard-like appendage; the ‘awn’ of corn or gra ; the ‘gills’ or breathing organs of oysters and other bivalves, .