beard - English dictionary definition

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Beard The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Beard The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
Beard The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
Beard The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
Beard The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
Beard The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
Beard In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
Beard Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
Beard A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Beard That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

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