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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beardless

Beardless \Beard"less\, a.

  1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

  2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beardless

early 14c., from beard (n.) + -less.

Wiktionary
beardless

a. 1 Lacking a beard. 2 (context by extension of a male English) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful. 3 Destitute of an awn.

WordNet
beardless
  1. adj. having no beard [syn: whiskerless]

  2. lacking hair on the face; "a smooth-faced boy of 14 years" [syn: smooth-faced]

Usage examples of "beardless".

His sable complexion and thick lips declared him to be a moorman from across the seas, and his beardless chin further told at a glance that he was an attendant at the seraglio of some rich noble.

The warrior was bare-headed, his pate shaved, and his angular beardless face revealed old scars along his jawline and down the length of his nose.

His face was narrow with a hawk nose and a seamed, beardless face, and his dark hair was mostly captured in an odd, stockinglike cap.

A Tyrin stood awaiting them, arms crossed over his chest, beardless chin outthrust.

The Vicomte de Tournay was scarce nineteen, a beardless boy, on whom terrible tragedies which were being enacted in his own country had made but little impression.

Hers were a beardless chin, untasseled ears, and fetlocks unfringed with feathery down.

Since Lau, like many peasants on the Island, grew either the Epp or the Kujave variety, both beardless and consequently an easy prey for birds, the scarecrows had ample opportunity to prove their worth.

Vistula delta from beardless Epp wheat to chestnut trees, willows, alders, and scrub pines.

The early-dinner crowd of beardless moderns had returned to their jobs in the high-rises, the conservatives had left for sunset prayers, but the restaurant was still busy, voices bouncing off the raw brick interior.

His face and beardless chins were beslobbered with runnels of grease, carrying particles of several different courses of the meal.

A servantone of the beardless eunuchsbrought in a bowllike brazier glowing with coals and opened up its tripod legs.

Umbrage was a freelance at that time, and stumbled upon the sight of a beardless youth defending himself as best he could against a pack of brutes and thieves.

Hanna asked, but before she got her bearings or an answer two handsomely robed men with beardless cheeks and shrewd expressions rushed out from the central tent to meet them.

He stood there, a full head and shoulders taller than the shrinking stablemaster, his blue eyes on fire and his chiseled, beardless face set in lines of stone.

In any event, for a fraction of a second the lights flashed bright and the now beardless gentleman, staring up in startlement, kicked for a frozen instant eye to eye with Cugel.