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Bearded

Beard \Beard\ (b[=e]rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bearded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bearding.]

  1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

  2. To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.

    No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
    --Macaulay.

  3. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Bearded

Bearded \Beard"ed\, a. Having a beard. ``Bearded fellow.''
--Shak. ``Bearded grain.''
--Dryden.

Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. (Zo["o]l.) See Lammergeir.

Bearded tortoise. (Zo["o]l.) See Matamata.

Wiktionary
bearded
  1. having a beard v

  2. (en-past of: beard)

WordNet
bearded
  1. adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery]

  2. having a growth of hair-like awns; "bearded wheatgrass"

Wikipedia
Bearded (magazine)

Bearded is a British bi-monthly music magazine that distributes nationwide through WHSmith, Borders, independent record shops and newsagent's shops. The magazine covers the independent music industry and only reviews artists who are either unsigned or signed to independent record labels.

Usage examples of "bearded".

Such terrors would disgrace a cook-maid, or a toothless aunt--when they fall from the lips of bearded and senatorial men, they are nauseous, antiperistaltic, and emetical.

The antlered deity tilted his bearded head to one side, studying his guest.

Fayr Ballat, was a man of middle age, blond and bearded, tall and loose-limbed.

Then the bearded man slowly rose to his feet, methodically buttoned his jacket, and walked back down toward the center of town.

He is a classic bearded, pale, skinny hacker, trying to beef himself up by wearing a bulky silk windbreaker blazoned with the logo of one of the big Metaverse amusement parks.

Whenever this powdered and courteous old man, who never missed a Sunday at the convent chapel at Hammersmith, and who was in all respects, thoughts, conduct, and bearing utterly unlike the bearded savages of his nation, who curse perfidious Albion, and scowl at you from over their cigars, in the Quadrant arcades at the present day-- whenever the old Chevalier de Talonrouge spoke of Mistress Osborne, he would first finish his pinch of snuff, flick away the remaining particles of dust with a graceful wave of his hand, gather up his fingers again into a bunch, and, bringing them up to his mouth, blow them open with a kiss, exclaiming, Ah!

The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.

Ged who had never been down from the heights of the mountain, the Port of Gont was an awesome and marvellous place, the great houses and towers of cut stone and waterfront of piers and docks and basins and moorages, the seaport where half a hundred boats and galleys rocked at quayside or lay hauled up and overturned for repairs or stood out at anchor in the roadstead with furled sails and closed oarports, the sailors shouting in strange dialects and the longshoremen running heavyladen amongst barrels and boxes and coils of rope and stacks of oars, the bearded merchants in furred robes conversing quietly as they picked their way along the slimy stones above the water, the fishermen unloading their catch, coopers pounding and shipmakers hammering and clamsellers singing and shipmasters bellowing, and beyond all the silent, shining bay.

Then I grounded and covered Moryn as she went to take out a bearded male with a crossbow.

Saul swung again, shattered the bearded silhouette of his own reflection as well as a muntin, tapped out the clinging shards of glass, and groped in the darkness for the latch.

There were grotesque bearded men whose parts had been broadened and lengthened until their membrums hung pendulously almost to their knees, and there were others as tall and thin as exemplars.

Mr Pump set off towards the distant counter, and the bearded Junior Postman panicked.

Before him, Ranunculus rasped and sputtered, the skin of his bearded face turning purple.

I remember how I, invariably so taciturn, suddenly fastened upon Zverkov, when one day talking at a leisure moment with his schoolfellows of his future relations with the fair sex, and growing as sportive as a puppy in the sun, he all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed, that that was his DROIT DE SEIGNEUR, and that if the peasants dared to protest he would have them all flogged and double the tax on them, the bearded rascals.

The men were shaggily bearded, the roughly hacked hair of the women was unkempt.