greybeardgraybeardn.

Brit.

/ˈɡreɪbɪəd/, U.S.

/ˈɡreɪˌbɪrd/

Inflections: Also graybeard;

Forms: see grey adj. and n. and beard n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., beard n.

Etymology: < grey adj. + beard n. Compare grey-bearded adj.

1. A man with a grey beard; an elderly or old man.Recorded earliest as a surname.

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > person having

greybeard1207

whitebeard1450

redbeard1607

whey-beard1614

longbeard1665

1207 Curia Regis Rolls (1931) V. 62 (MED) Ricardus Brito [essoniavit se] per Greiberd.

c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 857 (MED) Ricardus Greyberd.

1332 in Misc. Lancaster & Cheshire (1896) II. 28 (MED) Robertus Graybred.

1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 84^v A Gallant Girle to hir Spouse, a Graybeard had.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 524 O gray-beard, age bringeth many deformities.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 334 Gre. Yongling thou canst not loue so deare as I. Tra. Gray-beard thy loue doth freeze.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo iii. 262 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors There are few gray-beards seen there, and few Christians reach 50 years of age.

1750 J. Lockman tr. P. de Marivaux Pharsamond II. vii. 88 Thou speakest without thinking, (replied old greybeard;) believe those whom years have made wise.

a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 23 It is I that couple..girls and greybeards, together.

1826 R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. I. ii. 43 [She] was receiving homage at Bath from greybeards and from boys.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. vi. 60 Questions which have baffled all the grey-beards.

1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 152/2 The grey beards of the village gathered under the peepul tree.

1967 Life 29 Sept. 4/1 Another graybeard, known as the Wise Old Man, saw them and jeered.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane ii. 44 We stood there watching a couple of greybeards approach the front door and take off their sandals on the doorstep.

†2. A marine fish (not identified), perhaps the coalfish, Pollachius virens. Obsolete. rare.Cf. greyfish n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(b), and greyhead n. 2.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish) > at certain stage of growth

greyhead1692

greylord1698

greyfish1703

greybeard1742

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) IV. 9 Pike, Scate, Greyberd, Mackerel..Soles, Flukes..are also caught.

3. Chiefly Scottish. A stoneware or earthenware jug or jar typically used for holding an alcoholic spirit. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for spirits

greybeard1751

stand cask1803

tub1835

greyhead1892

1751 E. Synge Let. 16 July (1996) 327 He'll want more Grey-beards for Whisky.

1788 G. Wilson Coll. Masonic Songs 67 Whate'er he laid his fangs on, Be't hogshead, anker, gray-beard, pack.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 350 So long as her best greybeard of brandy was upon duty.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 355 Neither a mere jar, nor simply a basket, but one of those compounds of both, well known under the name of ‘grey-beard’, which are devoted to the conveyance of usquebaugh.

1885 J. H. Middleton in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 631/1 Stoneware jug or ‘greybeard’; Flemish ware, early 17th century.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 150 There was not a farmer's grey-beard between the Lothians and the Solway filled with spirit that had done obeisance to King George.

1954 Scotsman 27 Nov. 6 These greybeards, originally made in Holland, were later made in other parts of Europe, including England and Scotland.

2001 Fortean Times Jan. 26/3 The most common type of witch bottle is the Greybeard or Bellamine, a round-bellied stoneware container.

†4. The bryozoan Sertularia argentea, a colonial animal which grows in oyster beds. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1874 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 163 The oyster is often literally embowered in a substance that looks like diminutive trees... The oystermen call it ‘gray-beard’.

1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 118 To have the red-beard, and gray-beard, Sertularia argentea, and several other hydroids and bryozoa..was a sure sign that the oysters were doing well.

1893 13th Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Agric. Exper. Station 1892 257 Spirit preparation of a hydroid (Serlutaria [sic] sp.) , known as ‘graybeard’, ‘seaweed’, etc. Often found on oysters.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier. Designating a man with a grey beard; elderly, old; (also) relating to or characteristic of advanced age or long experience. Cf. grey-bearded adj.

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1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 25 Cerberus held his peace, Lachesis left off to be spinning, And gray-beard feriman forebare his boate to be rowing.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 3 Those graybeard Huddle-duddles..were strooke with..remorse.

1679 J. Bancroft Trag. Sertorius v. vi. 53 This gray-beard Villain, who contrives our fall,..must Lord it o're our Liberties.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 222 That house..Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 6 Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon!

1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 407 This honest grey-beard custom..handed down to us from our worthy Dutch ancestors.

1869 F. A. Prideaux Nine Days' Queen ii. v. 97 Greybeard chiefs,..have all searched in vain.

1908 Treasury June 264/2 A large white envelope..might be from..a greybeard friend of your father's.

1971 Flying Aug. 115/1 The graybeard captain about to lose both his medical and his wide.

2006 D. Lawday Napoleon's Master (2007) xxi. 341 By the New Year of 1834 he was back at his post in London, propelled there, he noted with greybeard pride, by Louis-Philippe's conviction that he was indispensable.

C2.

greybeard lichen n. any of several foliose lichens of the genus Usnea.

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1835 Amer. Gardener's Mag. Dec. 443 Those gray beard lichens, giving the appearance of honorable and honest age to the pendent branches.]

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Mar. 4/1 Up the Fluela valley there is an excellent carriage road, leading first through pine-woods covered with long grey-beard lichen.

1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. v. 191 The common graybeard lichen, Usnea barbata.

1921 F. M. Chapman Dist. Bird Life Urubamba Valley Peru 20 The gray-beard lichen was the prevalent one on the terminal parts of the branches.

2010 R. Turnbull Not West Highland Way 37 Birch and oak trees well draped with greybeard lichen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greybeard
释义	greybeardgraybeardn. Brit. /ˈɡreɪbɪəd/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌbɪrd/ Inflections: Also graybeard; Forms: see grey adj. and n. and beard n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., beard n. Etymology: < grey adj. + beard n. Compare grey-bearded adj. 1. A man with a grey beard; an elderly or old man.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > person having greybeard1207 whitebeard1450 redbeard1607 whey-beard1614 longbeard1665 1207 Curia Regis Rolls (1931) V. 62 (MED) Ricardus Brito [essoniavit se] per Greiberd. c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 857 (MED) Ricardus Greyberd. 1332 in Misc. Lancaster & Cheshire (1896) II. 28 (MED) Robertus Graybred. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 84^v A Gallant Girle to hir Spouse, a Graybeard had. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 524 O gray-beard, age bringeth many deformities. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 334 Gre. Yongling thou canst not loue so deare as I. Tra. Gray-beard thy loue doth freeze. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo iii. 262 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors There are few gray-beards seen there, and few Christians reach 50 years of age. 1750 J. Lockman tr. P. de Marivaux Pharsamond II. vii. 88 Thou speakest without thinking, (replied old greybeard;) believe those whom years have made wise. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 23 It is I that couple..girls and greybeards, together. 1826 R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. I. ii. 43 [She] was receiving homage at Bath from greybeards and from boys. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. vi. 60 Questions which have baffled all the grey-beards. 1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 152/2 The grey beards of the village gathered under the peepul tree. 1967 Life 29 Sept. 4/1 Another graybeard, known as the Wise Old Man, saw them and jeered. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane ii. 44 We stood there watching a couple of greybeards approach the front door and take off their sandals on the doorstep. †2. A marine fish (not identified), perhaps the coalfish, Pollachius virens. Obsolete. rare.Cf. greyfish n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(b), and greyhead n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish) > at certain stage of growth greyhead1692 greylord1698 greyfish1703 greybeard1742 1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) IV. 9 Pike, Scate, Greyberd, Mackerel..Soles, Flukes..are also caught. 3. Chiefly Scottish. A stoneware or earthenware jug or jar typically used for holding an alcoholic spirit. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for spirits greybeard1751 stand cask1803 tub1835 greyhead1892 1751 E. Synge Let. 16 July (1996) 327 He'll want more Grey-beards for Whisky. 1788 G. Wilson Coll. Masonic Songs 67 Whate'er he laid his fangs on, Be't hogshead, anker, gray-beard, pack. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 350 So long as her best greybeard of brandy was upon duty. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 355 Neither a mere jar, nor simply a basket, but one of those compounds of both, well known under the name of ‘grey-beard’, which are devoted to the conveyance of usquebaugh. 1885 J. H. Middleton in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 631/1 Stoneware jug or ‘greybeard’; Flemish ware, early 17th century. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 150 There was not a farmer's grey-beard between the Lothians and the Solway filled with spirit that had done obeisance to King George. 1954 Scotsman 27 Nov. 6 These greybeards, originally made in Holland, were later made in other parts of Europe, including England and Scotland. 2001 Fortean Times Jan. 26/3 The most common type of witch bottle is the Greybeard or Bellamine, a round-bellied stoneware container. †4. The bryozoan Sertularia argentea, a colonial animal which grows in oyster beds. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1874 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 163 The oyster is often literally embowered in a substance that looks like diminutive trees... The oystermen call it ‘gray-beard’. 1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 118 To have the red-beard, and gray-beard, Sertularia argentea, and several other hydroids and bryozoa..was a sure sign that the oysters were doing well. 1893 13th Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Agric. Exper. Station 1892 257 Spirit preparation of a hydroid (Serlutaria [sic] sp.) , known as ‘graybeard’, ‘seaweed’, etc. Often found on oysters. Compounds C1. As a modifier. Designating a man with a grey beard; elderly, old; (also) relating to or characteristic of advanced age or long experience. Cf. grey-bearded adj. ΚΠ 1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 25 Cerberus held his peace, Lachesis left off to be spinning, And gray-beard feriman forebare his boate to be rowing. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 3 Those graybeard Huddle-duddles..were strooke with..remorse. 1679 J. Bancroft Trag. Sertorius v. vi. 53 This gray-beard Villain, who contrives our fall,..must Lord it o're our Liberties. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 222 That house..Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 6 Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon! 1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 407 This honest grey-beard custom..handed down to us from our worthy Dutch ancestors. 1869 F. A. Prideaux Nine Days' Queen ii. v. 97 Greybeard chiefs,..have all searched in vain. 1908 Treasury June 264/2 A large white envelope..might be from..a greybeard friend of your father's. 1971 Flying Aug. 115/1 The graybeard captain about to lose both his medical and his wide. 2006 D. Lawday Napoleon's Master (2007) xxi. 341 By the New Year of 1834 he was back at his post in London, propelled there, he noted with greybeard pride, by Louis-Philippe's conviction that he was indispensable. C2. greybeard lichen n. any of several foliose lichens of the genus Usnea. ΚΠ 1835 Amer. Gardener's Mag. Dec. 443 Those gray beard lichens, giving the appearance of honorable and honest age to the pendent branches.] 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Mar. 4/1 Up the Fluela valley there is an excellent carriage road, leading first through pine-woods covered with long grey-beard lichen. 1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. v. 191 The common graybeard lichen, Usnea barbata. 1921 F. M. Chapman Dist. Bird Life Urubamba Valley Peru 20 The gray-beard lichen was the prevalent one on the terminal parts of the branches. 2010 R. Turnbull Not West Highland Way 37 Birch and oak trees well draped with greybeard lichen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1207
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