beard

IPA: bˈɪrd

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
Long, hair-like feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
A place name:
An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.

(intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
(intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
(LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) 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.

Examples of "beard" in Sentences

_Whiskin 'beard_, a beard like the whiskers of a cat.
Removing the beard is against his religious beliefs, so Singh refused the razor and instead hired a human-rights lawyer.
Grooming companies like Philips Norelco are retiring the term "beard trimmer" and calling their new models "stubble trimmers."
Keimer wore his beard at full length, because somewhere in the Mosaic law it is said, "_Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard_."
The valance is the fringes or drapery hanging round the tester of a bed.] [Footnote II. 55: _Com'st thou to beard me_] To _beard_ anciently meant to set _at defiance_.
And so they're very worried about, you know, what the length of your beard is and what kind of clothes you're wearing, and the sort of the stuff which the Sufis would say is nonsense.
This seems unlikely, admittedly, though if you study old photos of WG Grace it's hard to avoid the conclusion that at least some of the white in his beard is the remains of a shredded terry‑cotton nappy.