Meaning of beard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
3. A place name:
4. An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
5. chin
6. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
7. An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
8. beardy, bearded man
9. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
10. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.
11. the part of an old man (in a play)
12. The byssus of certain shellfish.
13. the villain (of a play)
14. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
15. The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
16. The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
17. Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
18. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
19. The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
20. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
21. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
    dated
22. A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
    slang
23. One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
    slang
24. 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.
    slang

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Examples

“At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.”

“the beard of grain”

“While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.”

“To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.”

“What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard.”

“One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer.”

“Charlotte: Smith is not gay. Miranda: Of course not. Charlotte: So this makes you his beard.”

“In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’””

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