From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbeardbeard1 /bɪəd $ bɪrd/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1 DCBhair that grows around a man’s chin and cheeks → moustache2 HBAsomething similar to a beard, such as hair growing on an animal’s chin —bearded adjective
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beard• Beyond the great sweep of blue trouser and the distant clouds of sweater was a beard.• Certainly with his long, jet-black, forked beard, he looked the part.• Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.• But his beard seems to belong to another man and another time.• Gyggle steepled his freckled fingers and tucked them under a tier of the beard.• Some of their fathers wore beards.beardbeard2 verb [transitive] → beard somebody (in their den)→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
beard• When a barrister comes to address your University or College law society, you can beard him on the subject.Origin beard Old English 