Beards


beard

B0135200 (bîrd)n.1. A growth of hair on the chin, cheeks, and throat of a person, especially a man.2. A tuft or growth of hairs, bristles, or other hairlike threads on a plant or animal.3. One who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another, especially a person of the opposite sex who accompanies a gay man or lesbian to give the impression of heterosexuality.4. Printing The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face. Also called neck.tr.v. beard·ed, beard·ing, beards 1. To furnish with a beard.2. To confront boldly.
[Middle English berd, from Old English beard; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots.]
beard′less adj.

Beards

See also facial features; hair.
pogoniasisMedicine. 1. an excessive growth of beard.
2. the development of a beard by a woman.pogonologya treatise on beards. — pogonologist, n.pogonophilean admirer of beards; a student of beards.pogonophobiaan abnormal fear or dislike of beards.pogonotomythe cutting of beards.pogonotrophythe cultivation of beards, beard-growing.

Beards

 

See Also: HAIR, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

  1. Bearded as Abraham —George Garrett
  2. Bearded like a black sky before a storm —George Garrett
  3. Beard not clipped, but flowing like a bridal veil —Sinclair Lewis
  4. Beards like Spanish moss —T. Coraghessan Boyle
  5. Beard stiff and jutting like a Michelangelo prophet —Harvey Swados
  6. Bristly gray beard … as rusted as old iron —Paige Mitchell
  7. Flecks of premature gray in his beard, like the first seeds of age beginning to sprout in him —Ross Macdonald
  8. Gray beard like a goat’s chin tuft —Ernest Hemingway
  9. A heavy black beard that grew high on his cheeks like a mask —James Crumley
  10. His beard is like a bird’s nest, woven with dark silks —Bobbie Ann Mason
  11. His red beard looked like a toy doctor’s beard stuck on a child’s face —Gloria Norris
  12. His sideburn, shaped like the outline of Italy, juts out onto his jaw —Bobbie Ann Mason
  13. Long beard was spread out like a little blanket on his chest —Willis Johnson
  14. Massive sideburns hung like stirrups on either side of his face —Ross Macdonald
  15. A neat little beard, like a bird’s nest, cupped his chin —Bobbie Ann Mason
  16. A shadow of beard lay over his bony cheeks like soot on a chimney sweep —W. T. Tyler
  17. Sideburns like brackets —Max Shulman
  18. Sideburns stood like powerful bushy pillars to the beard —Saul Bellow
  19. A small goatee stuck to his chin like a swab of surgical cotton —Dorothea Straus
  20. A two-day growth of beard that made him look like a cactus —Sue Grafton
  21. Whiskers grew like small creeper upon a scorched face —Frank Swinnerton