beard
/bɪɹd/ verb C2- To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. · Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
He/she/it beards · Past bearded · Past participle bearded · -ing form bearding
Verb forms
- Base form
- beard
- He/she/it
- beards
- Past
- bearded
- Past participle
- bearded
- -ing form
- bearding
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As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse appeared at the door.
There was a soldier before the door, dressed in a green uniform and wearing a long green beard.
If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.”
It was that of a man about forty-three or forty-four years of age, middle-sized, broad shouldered, with crisp curling black hair, and a short stubbly beard.
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