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BEARDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a growth of hairlike awns
Example:
bearded wheatgrass
Classified under:
Similar:
awned; awny (having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having hair on the cheeks and chin
Synonyms:
barbate; bearded; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery
Classified under:
Similar:
unshaved; unshaven (not shaved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb beard
Context examples:
According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke, that bent his brow; now St. John's long hair that waved; and anon the devilish face of Judas, that grew out of the panel, and seemed gathering life and threatening a revelation of the arch-traitor—of Satan himself—in his subordinate's form.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the Old World, especially any of the domesticated forms of C. hircus, raised for wool, milk, and meat.
(Goat, NCI Thesaurus)
He connected the sudden departure with the visit to the hotel a day or two before of a tall, dark, bearded man.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Hold to her, Wat!” said a great black-bearded man-at-arms, whose steel breast-plate glimmered in the dusk.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Williamson is a white-bearded man, and he lives alone with a small staff of servants at the Hall.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were swarthy fellows, bearded and fierce, as active and wiry as panthers.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could see the pilot-house and a white-bearded man leaning partly out of it, on his elbows.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The gentleman was bearded and moustached, you say?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Further on he met a sturdy black-bearded man, mounted on a brown horse, with a rosary in his right hand and a long two-handed sword jangling against his stirrup-iron.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Who should it be but the pale-faced, bearded man, who seemed himself in so nervous a state?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
