bearded — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.

   Synonyms

   barbigerousbeardybe-beardedawnybarbatebarbedbristly

   Examples

   (botany)

   (zoology)

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   Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:

   1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.

   He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, 'It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work.'

2. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).

   Examples

   bearded mussel

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   This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]

   [B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

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   Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,

3. Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.

4. Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

   Usage

   • In compounds

   Examples

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   [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’

   … for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …

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   Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.

5. Having barbs of a certain color.

   Synonyms

   barbed

Adjective

1. having hair on the cheeks and chin

   Synonyms

   barbatebewhiskeredwhiskeredwhiskery

2. having a growth of hairlike awns

   Examples

   bearded wheatgrass