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bearded, ppl. a.|ˈbɪədɪd|
[f. beard n. or v.]
1. Of man and animals: Having a beard; spec. in names of animals, as Bearded Collies, Bearded Eagle, and Bearded Tit, Titmouse, or Pinnock.
1530Palsgr. 306/1 Berded, barbu. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 150 A Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the Pard. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 39 The Bearded Eagle, or Lammer-Geyer. 1868M. E. Braddon Run to Earth I. i. 9 Black-bearded, foreign-looking seamen. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 39 Each bearded mouth. 1880H. Dalziel Brit. Dogs ii. i. 208 In the west of Scotland there is a rough-faced and very shaggy-coated dog called the bearded colley, differing mainly from the true colley in being rough-faced, rather heavier built, altogether less elegant, and with a shaggier and harsher coat. 1928F. T. Barton Kennel Encycl. 91 The Bearded Collie.—In certain parts of Scotland there is a type of sheep-dog or collie which has a beard, or profusion of hair on the muzzle.
2. Of plants, seeds, etc.: Furnished with bristles or hairy tufts, awned; as in bearded wheat.
1578Lyte Dodoens 461 His long bearded eares doth much resemble Barley. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 983 Her bearded Grove of ears. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 196 The ground being covered with grass, the seeds of which were sharp and bearded. 1842Tennyson Lady of Shalott i. iv, Only reapers, reaping early, In among the bearded barley.
3. transf. in gen. sense: Covered with beard-like tufts or appendages.
1847Longfellow Evang. Prel. 2 The hemlocks, Bearded with moss. 1870Tyndall Heat ii. §29. 33 The pipe from which the air issued became bearded with icicles.
4. Of a comet, meteor, etc.: Having a train or tail; cf. beard n. 7. arch. or poet.
c1380Wyclif De Pseudo-freris v. Wks. (1880) 308 Þe sterre herid or beerdid erriþ fro heuene in his mouyng and bitokeneþ pestilence. a1638Randolph Muses' Look.-Gl. ii. ii. (1640) 22 Let fooles gaze At bearded starres. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. Introd. 21 Comets..are vulgarly distinguished into three kinds, bearded, tailed, and hairy. 1842Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii. iii, Some bearded meteor, trailing light Moves over still Shalott.
5. a. Barbed or jagged like an arrow or fish-hook.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 28 The bearded end of the [compass] needle doth only offer itself. 1659Gauden Tears Ch. 105 Reputation is the bearded hook, which holds most men faster than conscience. 1753Douglass Brit. Settl. N. Amer. 262 The best Iron Bars break fibrous and bearded. 1793[see beard n. 9]. 1813H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. 48 Rest there awhile, my bearded lance.
b. Of type: Furnished with a beard n. 11 e. |