| 单词 | beard |
| 释义 | beard —beardlike, adj. /beard/, n. 1. the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache. 2. Zool. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds. 3. Bot. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley. 4. a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc. 5. Also called bevel neck. Print. a. the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body. b. Brit. the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder. c. the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G. See diag. under type. v.t. 6. to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man. 7. to oppose boldly; defy: It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups. 8. to supply with a beard. [bef. 900; ME berd, OE beard; c. G Bart, D baard, LL Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Goth bars, L barba ( > Welsh barf), Lith barzdà, OCS brada, Russ borodá; European IE *bHaer-dha, perh. akin to BARLEY1] Syn. 7. confront, brave, dare, face, challenge. |
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