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whitebeard|ˈhwaɪtbɪəd|
1. An old man with a white beard.
† Also as quasi-proper name: in quot. 1450 probably in allusion to the representation of God the Father as an aged man.
1450Sir J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. I. 131 They shall be quyt by Blackberd or Whyteberd; that ys to sey, by God or the Devyll. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 112 Whitebeards [mispr. White Beares] haue arm'd their thin and hairelesse Scalps Against thy Maiestie. 1829Scott Anne of G. xii, ‘If she were worth twenty crowns,’..said the old whitebeard.
2. Name in Australia for the plant Styphelia ericoides, from the white hairs on the corolla.
1898Morris Austral Engl. |