beard

t. [From beard, s. (q.v.).] I. To provide or furnish with a beard. (Generally in the pa. par., bearded .) "The youth now bearded, and yet pert and raw." Cowper: Tirocinium. II. To take or pluck by the beard in contemptuous defiance or uncontrollable anger. 1. Lit. With the foregoing meaning. 2. Fig .: To defy, to oppose to the face, to affront. Used IMG:content-1166.png:[blocks in formation] "The meanest weed the soil there bare Her breath did so refine. That it with woodbine durst compare And beard the eglantine." Drayton: Question of Cynthia , p. 624. III. Carpentry: To chip or plane away timber, so as to reduce the concavity of a curve, to modify a straight line, . bë'ard-ěd, pa. par. & a. [BEARD, v.] A. As pa. par.: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. B. As participial adjective : I. Ordinary Language: 1. Of man or the inferior animals : Having a beard. "The bearded Turk, that rarely deigns to speak." Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 58. two large bearded monkeys." Darwin: Voyage round the World, ch. 2. 2. Of plants: Having awns, as barley and other grain, and some gra es. [See also II. 2.] Tennyson: Lady of Shalott. "In among the bearded barley." "On the chalk-hill the bearded gra Is dry and dewle ." Tennyson: The Miller's Daughter. 3. Of things inanimate: (a) Having anything long and hair-like connected with it. "Some bearded meteor, trailing light." Tennyson: Lady of Shalott , pt. iii. (b) Barbed, jagged. "Thou should'st have pull'd the secret from my breast, Torn out the bearded steel to give me rest." Dryden. II. Technically : 1. Zool.: Po e ed of a "beard." [A. 1.] The Bearded Tit , Bearded Titmouse, Bearded Pinnock : A bird, called also the Least Butcherbird. It is the Cal a mop hilus biarmicus of Jenyns. The male has the head a light greyish blue the general colour light red; 477 the wings variegated with black and white; mystachial bands and lower tail-coverts black, The female is lighter, with the head merely tipped with grey, no mystachial bands, and the lower tail-coverts light red. Young like the female, but with the head and back black. Male: length 6 inches; extent of wings, 74; female, 6 inches. It lives among reeds and aquatic plants in the southern counties of England. Its nest, made of reeds, sedges, ., and lined with reed-tops, is placed in a tuft of gra or rushes near the ground. Its eggs are five or six, white, with a few light-red lines and dots. 2. Botany: Having long hairs occurring in tufts; barbate.