Beards
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beard
(bîrd)n.
1. A growth of hair on the chin, cheeks, and throat of a person, especially a man.
2. A tuft or growth of hairs, bristles, or other hairlike threads on a plant or animal.
3. One who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another, especially a person of the opposite sex who accompanies a gay man or lesbian to give the impression of heterosexuality.
4. Printing The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face. Also called neck.
tr.v. beard·ed, beard·ing, beards
1. To furnish with a beard.
2. To confront boldly.
beard′less adj.
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Beards
See also facial features; hair.
Medicine. 1. an excessive growth of beard.
2. the development of a beard by a woman.
2. the development of a beard by a woman.
a treatise on beards. — pogonologist, n.
an admirer of beards; a student of beards.
an abnormal fear or dislike of beards.
the cutting of beards.
the cultivation of beards, beard-growing.
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Beards
See Also: HAIR, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
- Bearded as Abraham —George Garrett
- Bearded like a black sky before a storm —George Garrett
- Beard not clipped, but flowing like a bridal veil —Sinclair Lewis
- Beards like Spanish moss —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Beard stiff and jutting like a Michelangelo prophet —Harvey Swados
- Bristly gray beard … as rusted as old iron —Paige Mitchell
- Flecks of premature gray in his beard, like the first seeds of age beginning to sprout in him —Ross Macdonald
- Gray beard like a goat’s chin tuft —Ernest Hemingway
- A heavy black beard that grew high on his cheeks like a mask —James Crumley
- His beard is like a bird’s nest, woven with dark silks —Bobbie Ann Mason
- His red beard looked like a toy doctor’s beard stuck on a child’s face —Gloria Norris
- His sideburn, shaped like the outline of Italy, juts out onto his jaw —Bobbie Ann Mason
- Long beard was spread out like a little blanket on his chest —Willis Johnson
- Massive sideburns hung like stirrups on either side of his face —Ross Macdonald
- A neat little beard, like a bird’s nest, cupped his chin —Bobbie Ann Mason
- A shadow of beard lay over his bony cheeks like soot on a chimney sweep —W. T. Tyler
- Sideburns like brackets —Max Shulman
- Sideburns stood like powerful bushy pillars to the beard —Saul Bellow
- A small goatee stuck to his chin like a swab of surgical cotton —Dorothea Straus
- A two-day growth of beard that made him look like a cactus —Sue Grafton
- Whiskers grew like small creeper upon a scorched face —Frank Swinnerton
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