Definition of beard in English:

beard

noun bɪədˈbɪrd

1A growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man's face.
he had a black beard
mass noun three days' growth of beard
Example sentencesExamples
- The other was 5ft 9in with short black hair and a beard.
- The two six-year-old boys described the man who approached them as white, aged about 40, with some beard growth on his chin.
- He had short black hair with a black beard and what has been described as ‘sores’ on his face.
- He had white skin, a trimmed beard, small black eyes and short-cropped hair around a bald spot.
- Instead, I've tried to ignore it, but whether I shave off my goatee, grow a beard or cut my hair, the resemblance won't go away.
- A little beard definitely makes my cheeks look a bit fuller, which can only be a good thing.
- They are young; they wear fatigues and sport long black hair and beards.
- He washed his face and shaved his nightly growth of a beard.
- He was tall and muscular with shaggy black hair with a beard.
- His suit was dark, his hair dyed black, his beard full and neat.
- He had long shaggy dirty blond hair almost completely covering his eyes; he had a two-day-old beard forming on his cheeks and chin.
- His long, tangled hair joined with his beard, his long black leather coat was clad with silver chains and spikes, as were his solid boots.
- Euthenas giggled as the whiskery hairs of his beard tickled her cheeks.
- She laid her head back on his shoulder, taking pleasure in the soft, dry texture of his trim beard against her cheek.
- The man was a giant, with a large flowing mane of jet black hair and a beard to match.
- They contain more blood than essence in men, and thus promote the growth of the beard and body hair.
- He had even taken the time to dye his beard and hair black.
- I'm also cultivating a tiny beard under my lower lip but purely because I quite liked tugging on it.
- After completing their career courses, captains arrive at new duty stations wearing Bermuda shorts, Birkenstocks, and 3-day growths of beards.
- The giveaways are the white beard, ruddy cheeks and pet cat draped round his neck like a fur stole.
Synonyms
facial hair, whiskers, stubble, designer stubble, five o'clock shadow, bristles
full beard, goatee, imperial, Vandyke, Abe Lincoln, side whiskers, sideboards, sideburns, mutton chops
moustache, moustaches
British informal, dated beaver
1. 1.1 A tuft of hair on the chin of certain mammals, for example a lion or goat.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both males and females are brown to dark-gray with light beards and dark faces.
  Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
  The tail is short and tipped with black; ears have long black tufts and cheeks have long pale ruffs which form a pointed beard at the throat.
  The goat has dilute glaze on its forehead and upper beard.
  The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard.
2. 1.2 An animal's growth or marking that is likened to a beard, for example the gills of an oyster, or the beak bristles of certain birds.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many of the larger hatcheries claim to sell araucanas, but instead are selling americanas, which have a tail and a beard instead of tufts, or Easter Egg chickens, which can look like anything as they are only part araucana.
  The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white.
  The Ameraucana has a tail, muffs, and a beard around its face.
  Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches.
  A bird shot by a 9-year-old of Lebanon set new Oregon state records for weight, beard length and overall score.
3. 1.3 A tuft of hairs or bristles on certain plants, especially the awn of a grass.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Decorate each ‘ear’ with two leaves and spun sugar to resemble corn beards.
  Our wheat does have a beard, but not as itchy as a barley awn.
  Each grain is covered with a husk called the ‘lemma’ which may or may not have a long hair or ‘beard’ on the tip; modern wheats include bearded and beardless varieties.
  The strands of barley's beard can get stuck in an animals mouth because it is sharp.
  The beard and branches are cut off to leave only the best part of the ginseng, however the head is left on for consumers to better assess the quality of the herb.
  I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard.
2US informal A person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity.
the beard permitted the manipulator to protect the odds
Example sentencesExamples
- Customers found opening or using multiple accounts or masking their true identity "beards" will forfeit all winnings.
- Beards can be anyone and can be found in casino-based sportsbooks and even online books.
- But what's to stop someone from betting $50,000 at a book with a limit of $1,000 from simply arranging for 49 other people (the "movers" or "beards") to bet $1,000 each for him?
- When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books.
- So beards, carrying their myriad associations with dissent and disorder, shiftiness and oddness, are considered dangerous vote - losers.
3North American informal A woman who accompanies a homosexual man as an escort to a social occasion, in order to help conceal his homosexuality.
the closeted male and his female ‘beard’
Example sentencesExamples
- His wife Linda was not just a beard, though.
- So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard.
- A beard is an accessory that adds a rough layer of macho to a very made-up silver screen image.
- True, their female beard friend is over in the isolation booth but there's nothing really gay about the "altered" photo.
- One of her very gay friends has a Hampton wedding to his very female beard.

verb bɪədˈbɪrd

[with object]

Boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable)
he was afraid to beard the sultan himself
Example sentencesExamples
- The man was bearded and wore a shiny suit and a red leather tie.
- Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order.
- Is this, at bottom, about international order or is it really about bearding the Americans and glorifying France?
- Vida away, Elsie and Aileen teaching, so I was left to beard the dragon.
- I missed my daily dose of Prof. Quiggin for a week or so, due to his spam crisis, so I didn't notice that the Professor's commenters were already bearding this interesting question…
- But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today.
Synonyms
confront, face, challenge, brave, come face to face with, meet head on
defy, oppose, stand up against, square up to, dare, throw down the gauntlet at

Phrases

beard the lion in his den (or lair)

Confront or challenge someone on their own ground.
Example sentencesExamples
- Deciding to beard the lion in his den, I visit Dr. Gerald Imber, a Fifth Avenue plastic surgeon.
- This was somewhat like bearding the lion in his den; and so it needed delicate handling.
- No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den.
- She's got to face her demons, beard the lion in his den.
- In the end, it came down to the fact that this wonderful Moorefield team was just a bit too young for the task in hand, bearding the Nobber lions in their picturesque North Meath lair in a keenly contested Leinster JFC final on Sunday.
- The answer was obvious: beard the lion in his den.
- And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed.
- She bearded the lion in his den with a revelation-packed bombing campaign, attempting to beat him into coalition.
- She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den.
- To come after it was to beard the lion in his den; to go without it was to blister in the sun.
- So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den.
- The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile.
- By this time we were willing to try anything, so he turned up early the next day prepared to beard the lion in his den.
- Now I suppose I am bearding the lion in his den, when I state that one of the planks of the platform is that we ask for an immediate, and substantial, and all-round reduction of the customs tariff-a substantial, immediate and all-round reduction of the customs tariff.
- That said the former Johnstownbridge was no more than cautiously optimistic about bearding the Royal lion in his Navan lair in a fortnight's time in the first round of the Leinster championship.
- This, however, was bearding the lion in his den, the lady being cared for in a milder way by the authorities, while James returned home.
- Wole Soyinka is one of those writers who subscribe to bearding the lion in his den.
- As the saying goes, beard the lion in his den.
- So he performs yet another act of selflessness and goes to beard the lion in his den.
- Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den.

Derivatives

beardless

adjective ˈbɪədləsˈbɪrdləs

The painting - The Calling Of Saints Peter And Andrew - depicts the two saints with a young, beardless Christ.
Example sentencesExamples
- Recorded in his diary probably in 1685, Mather's vision of a winged, beardless angel sporting a ‘splendid tiara’ is surprising, virtually unprecedented.
- David is shown as a young, beardless figure with short, dark hair, clad in a purple chlamys, fastened at the shoulder (though no fibula is represented), beneath which a white and golden yellow garment can be seen.
- The man was tall and slender, his body toned and fit, with pale skin and a rather angular face that was beardless.
- More problematic yet is the all-male cast, which in the Elizabethan theater featured beardless youths plausible in female roles, but here offers adult men inadvertently or, in one case, deliberately, camping.
- And Cargill, now beardless, appeared to enjoy the event, regaling colleagues with a few anecdotes.
- He continues his onslaught against all things glamorous, now beardless, but sporting a home-made basin-cut.
- His face was smooth and beardless, a testament to his youth, with high cheekbones and a delicate looking nose and mouth.
- In the second year, a beardless, spring wheat variety was mixed at planting with the winter wheat varieties so that when the spring wheat died during winter, the result was the desired levels of winterkill damage.
- Turning his back he rubbed his beardless chin thoughtfully, ‘Could I be loosing my touch?’
- These are followed shortly by the lovely graceful flowers of such beardless types as the Southern species hybrids and spurias.
- Principal types of irises are bearded, beardless, crested and bulb.
- ‘Right,’ the beardless man agreed, knowing his friend had a point.
- It suggests a sense of humour, a willingness to make an effort, an aspiration towards the airy, healthy, beardless Scandinavian lifestyle.
- The beardless miller's son, dressed in rags, is portrayed creating ex nihilo in the isolation of his bare studio something entirely original out of himself.
- Needless to say, the actors' faces at least will be beardless in this production.
- They didn't approve of a wandless, robeless, staffless, and most importantly of all, beardless wizard.
- The Santa Claus at Southgate Mall does wear a red-and-white suit, but otherwise he's tall, young, thin, beardless - and white.
- Ernest Hemingway in his beardless days - a robust and athletic young man

Origin

Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart.

As well as referring to a man's facial hair, beard, which is related to Latin barba ‘beard’, is used of the chin tuft of certain animals, such as a lion and a goat. These uses come together in the phrase to beard the lion in his den or lair, ‘to confront or challenge someone on their own ground’. To invade someone's personal space enough to be able to touch or pull their beard was always an aggressive or provocative act—in 1587 the English sailor and explorer Francis Drake (c.1540–96) described his expedition to Cadiz as ‘the singeing of the King of Spain's Beard’. In the Middle Ages to run in someone's beard was to defy him, and by the 16th century you could simply ‘beard someone’. Clearly this stopped being fearsome enough, and lions were introduced in the 18th century.

Rhymes

weird

Definition of beard in US English:

beard

nounˈbirdˈbɪrd

1A growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man's face.
he had a black beard
three days' growth of beard
Example sentencesExamples
- He was tall and muscular with shaggy black hair with a beard.
- He had even taken the time to dye his beard and hair black.
- She laid her head back on his shoulder, taking pleasure in the soft, dry texture of his trim beard against her cheek.
- He washed his face and shaved his nightly growth of a beard.
- He had short black hair with a black beard and what has been described as ‘sores’ on his face.
- They are young; they wear fatigues and sport long black hair and beards.
- The two six-year-old boys described the man who approached them as white, aged about 40, with some beard growth on his chin.
- Euthenas giggled as the whiskery hairs of his beard tickled her cheeks.
- The giveaways are the white beard, ruddy cheeks and pet cat draped round his neck like a fur stole.
- I'm also cultivating a tiny beard under my lower lip but purely because I quite liked tugging on it.
- The other was 5ft 9in with short black hair and a beard.
- His suit was dark, his hair dyed black, his beard full and neat.
- He had white skin, a trimmed beard, small black eyes and short-cropped hair around a bald spot.
- The man was a giant, with a large flowing mane of jet black hair and a beard to match.
- They contain more blood than essence in men, and thus promote the growth of the beard and body hair.
- He had long shaggy dirty blond hair almost completely covering his eyes; he had a two-day-old beard forming on his cheeks and chin.
- Instead, I've tried to ignore it, but whether I shave off my goatee, grow a beard or cut my hair, the resemblance won't go away.
- After completing their career courses, captains arrive at new duty stations wearing Bermuda shorts, Birkenstocks, and 3-day growths of beards.
- His long, tangled hair joined with his beard, his long black leather coat was clad with silver chains and spikes, as were his solid boots.
- A little beard definitely makes my cheeks look a bit fuller, which can only be a good thing.
Synonyms
facial hair, whiskers, stubble, designer stubble, five o'clock shadow, bristles
1. 1.1 A tuft of hair on the chin of certain mammals, for example a lion or goat.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard.
  The goat has dilute glaze on its forehead and upper beard.
  Both males and females are brown to dark-gray with light beards and dark faces.
  Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
  The tail is short and tipped with black; ears have long black tufts and cheeks have long pale ruffs which form a pointed beard at the throat.
2. 1.2 An animal's growth or marking that is likened to a beard, e.g., the gills of an oyster, or the beak bristles of certain birds.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white.
  The Ameraucana has a tail, muffs, and a beard around its face.
  Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches.
  Many of the larger hatcheries claim to sell araucanas, but instead are selling americanas, which have a tail and a beard instead of tufts, or Easter Egg chickens, which can look like anything as they are only part araucana.
  A bird shot by a 9-year-old of Lebanon set new Oregon state records for weight, beard length and overall score.
3. 1.3 A tuft of hairs or bristles on certain plants, especially the awn of a grass.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Each grain is covered with a husk called the ‘lemma’ which may or may not have a long hair or ‘beard’ on the tip; modern wheats include bearded and beardless varieties.
  Our wheat does have a beard, but not as itchy as a barley awn.
  I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard.
  Decorate each ‘ear’ with two leaves and spun sugar to resemble corn beards.
  The beard and branches are cut off to leave only the best part of the ginseng, however the head is left on for consumers to better assess the quality of the herb.
  The strands of barley's beard can get stuck in an animals mouth because it is sharp.
2US informal A person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity.
Example sentencesExamples
- When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books.
- So beards, carrying their myriad associations with dissent and disorder, shiftiness and oddness, are considered dangerous vote - losers.
- Customers found opening or using multiple accounts or masking their true identity "beards" will forfeit all winnings.
- Beards can be anyone and can be found in casino-based sportsbooks and even online books.
- But what's to stop someone from betting $50,000 at a book with a limit of $1,000 from simply arranging for 49 other people (the "movers" or "beards") to bet $1,000 each for him?
3North American informal A person who pretends to have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone else in order to conceal the other's true sexual orientation.
Example sentencesExamples
- So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard.
- True, their female beard friend is over in the isolation booth but there's nothing really gay about the "altered" photo.
- One of her very gay friends has a Hampton wedding to his very female beard.
- His wife Linda was not just a beard, though.
- A beard is an accessory that adds a rough layer of macho to a very made-up silver screen image.

verbˈbirdˈbɪrd

[with object]

Boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable).
Example sentencesExamples
- I missed my daily dose of Prof. Quiggin for a week or so, due to his spam crisis, so I didn't notice that the Professor's commenters were already bearding this interesting question…
- But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today.
- Vida away, Elsie and Aileen teaching, so I was left to beard the dragon.
- Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order.
- Is this, at bottom, about international order or is it really about bearding the Americans and glorifying France?
- The man was bearded and wore a shiny suit and a red leather tie.
Synonyms
confront, face, challenge, brave, come face to face with, meet head on

Phrases

beard the lion in his den (or lair)

Confront or challenge someone on their own ground.
Example sentencesExamples
- Deciding to beard the lion in his den, I visit Dr. Gerald Imber, a Fifth Avenue plastic surgeon.
- And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed.
- Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den.
- By this time we were willing to try anything, so he turned up early the next day prepared to beard the lion in his den.
- So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den.
- She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den.
- This, however, was bearding the lion in his den, the lady being cared for in a milder way by the authorities, while James returned home.
- The answer was obvious: beard the lion in his den.
- As the saying goes, beard the lion in his den.
- This was somewhat like bearding the lion in his den; and so it needed delicate handling.
- The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile.
- No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den.
- She's got to face her demons, beard the lion in his den.
- In the end, it came down to the fact that this wonderful Moorefield team was just a bit too young for the task in hand, bearding the Nobber lions in their picturesque North Meath lair in a keenly contested Leinster JFC final on Sunday.
- To come after it was to beard the lion in his den; to go without it was to blister in the sun.
- She bearded the lion in his den with a revelation-packed bombing campaign, attempting to beat him into coalition.
- Now I suppose I am bearding the lion in his den, when I state that one of the planks of the platform is that we ask for an immediate, and substantial, and all-round reduction of the customs tariff-a substantial, immediate and all-round reduction of the customs tariff.
- So he performs yet another act of selflessness and goes to beard the lion in his den.
- Wole Soyinka is one of those writers who subscribe to bearding the lion in his den.
- That said the former Johnstownbridge was no more than cautiously optimistic about bearding the Royal lion in his Navan lair in a fortnight's time in the first round of the Leinster championship.

Origin

Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart.

单词	beard
释义	Definition of beard in English: beard noun bɪədˈbɪrd 1A growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man's face. he had a black beard mass noun three days' growth of beard Example sentencesExamples The other was 5ft 9in with short black hair and a beard. The two six-year-old boys described the man who approached them as white, aged about 40, with some beard growth on his chin. He had short black hair with a black beard and what has been described as ‘sores’ on his face. He had white skin, a trimmed beard, small black eyes and short-cropped hair around a bald spot. Instead, I've tried to ignore it, but whether I shave off my goatee, grow a beard or cut my hair, the resemblance won't go away. A little beard definitely makes my cheeks look a bit fuller, which can only be a good thing. They are young; they wear fatigues and sport long black hair and beards. He washed his face and shaved his nightly growth of a beard. He was tall and muscular with shaggy black hair with a beard. His suit was dark, his hair dyed black, his beard full and neat. He had long shaggy dirty blond hair almost completely covering his eyes; he had a two-day-old beard forming on his cheeks and chin. His long, tangled hair joined with his beard, his long black leather coat was clad with silver chains and spikes, as were his solid boots. Euthenas giggled as the whiskery hairs of his beard tickled her cheeks. She laid her head back on his shoulder, taking pleasure in the soft, dry texture of his trim beard against her cheek. The man was a giant, with a large flowing mane of jet black hair and a beard to match. They contain more blood than essence in men, and thus promote the growth of the beard and body hair. He had even taken the time to dye his beard and hair black. I'm also cultivating a tiny beard under my lower lip but purely because I quite liked tugging on it. After completing their career courses, captains arrive at new duty stations wearing Bermuda shorts, Birkenstocks, and 3-day growths of beards. The giveaways are the white beard, ruddy cheeks and pet cat draped round his neck like a fur stole. Synonyms facial hair, whiskers, stubble, designer stubble, five o'clock shadow, bristles full beard, goatee, imperial, Vandyke, Abe Lincoln, side whiskers, sideboards, sideburns, mutton chops moustache, moustaches British informal, dated beaver 1.1 A tuft of hair on the chin of certain mammals, for example a lion or goat. Example sentencesExamples Both males and females are brown to dark-gray with light beards and dark faces. Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse. The tail is short and tipped with black; ears have long black tufts and cheeks have long pale ruffs which form a pointed beard at the throat. The goat has dilute glaze on its forehead and upper beard. The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard. 1.2 An animal's growth or marking that is likened to a beard, for example the gills of an oyster, or the beak bristles of certain birds. Example sentencesExamples Many of the larger hatcheries claim to sell araucanas, but instead are selling americanas, which have a tail and a beard instead of tufts, or Easter Egg chickens, which can look like anything as they are only part araucana. The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white. The Ameraucana has a tail, muffs, and a beard around its face. Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches. A bird shot by a 9-year-old of Lebanon set new Oregon state records for weight, beard length and overall score. 1.3 A tuft of hairs or bristles on certain plants, especially the awn of a grass. Example sentencesExamples Decorate each ‘ear’ with two leaves and spun sugar to resemble corn beards. Our wheat does have a beard, but not as itchy as a barley awn. Each grain is covered with a husk called the ‘lemma’ which may or may not have a long hair or ‘beard’ on the tip; modern wheats include bearded and beardless varieties. The strands of barley's beard can get stuck in an animals mouth because it is sharp. The beard and branches are cut off to leave only the best part of the ginseng, however the head is left on for consumers to better assess the quality of the herb. I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard. 2US informal A person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity. the beard permitted the manipulator to protect the odds Example sentencesExamples Customers found opening or using multiple accounts or masking their true identity "beards" will forfeit all winnings. Beards can be anyone and can be found in casino-based sportsbooks and even online books. But what's to stop someone from betting $50,000 at a book with a limit of $1,000 from simply arranging for 49 other people (the "movers" or "beards") to bet $1,000 each for him? When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books. So beards, carrying their myriad associations with dissent and disorder, shiftiness and oddness, are considered dangerous vote - losers. 3North American informal A woman who accompanies a homosexual man as an escort to a social occasion, in order to help conceal his homosexuality. the closeted male and his female ‘beard’ Example sentencesExamples His wife Linda was not just a beard, though. So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard. A beard is an accessory that adds a rough layer of macho to a very made-up silver screen image. True, their female beard friend is over in the isolation booth but there's nothing really gay about the "altered" photo. One of her very gay friends has a Hampton wedding to his very female beard. verb bɪədˈbɪrd [with object] Boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable) he was afraid to beard the sultan himself Example sentencesExamples The man was bearded and wore a shiny suit and a red leather tie. Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order. Is this, at bottom, about international order or is it really about bearding the Americans and glorifying France? Vida away, Elsie and Aileen teaching, so I was left to beard the dragon. I missed my daily dose of Prof. Quiggin for a week or so, due to his spam crisis, so I didn't notice that the Professor's commenters were already bearding this interesting question… But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today. Synonyms confront, face, challenge, brave, come face to face with, meet head on defy, oppose, stand up against, square up to, dare, throw down the gauntlet at Phrases beard the lion in his den (or lair) Confront or challenge someone on their own ground. Example sentencesExamples Deciding to beard the lion in his den, I visit Dr. Gerald Imber, a Fifth Avenue plastic surgeon. This was somewhat like bearding the lion in his den; and so it needed delicate handling. No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den. She's got to face her demons, beard the lion in his den. In the end, it came down to the fact that this wonderful Moorefield team was just a bit too young for the task in hand, bearding the Nobber lions in their picturesque North Meath lair in a keenly contested Leinster JFC final on Sunday. The answer was obvious: beard the lion in his den. And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed. She bearded the lion in his den with a revelation-packed bombing campaign, attempting to beat him into coalition. She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den. To come after it was to beard the lion in his den; to go without it was to blister in the sun. So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den. The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile. By this time we were willing to try anything, so he turned up early the next day prepared to beard the lion in his den. Now I suppose I am bearding the lion in his den, when I state that one of the planks of the platform is that we ask for an immediate, and substantial, and all-round reduction of the customs tariff-a substantial, immediate and all-round reduction of the customs tariff. That said the former Johnstownbridge was no more than cautiously optimistic about bearding the Royal lion in his Navan lair in a fortnight's time in the first round of the Leinster championship. This, however, was bearding the lion in his den, the lady being cared for in a milder way by the authorities, while James returned home. Wole Soyinka is one of those writers who subscribe to bearding the lion in his den. As the saying goes, beard the lion in his den. So he performs yet another act of selflessness and goes to beard the lion in his den. Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den. Derivatives beardless adjective ˈbɪədləsˈbɪrdləs The painting - The Calling Of Saints Peter And Andrew - depicts the two saints with a young, beardless Christ. Example sentencesExamples Recorded in his diary probably in 1685, Mather's vision of a winged, beardless angel sporting a ‘splendid tiara’ is surprising, virtually unprecedented. David is shown as a young, beardless figure with short, dark hair, clad in a purple chlamys, fastened at the shoulder (though no fibula is represented), beneath which a white and golden yellow garment can be seen. The man was tall and slender, his body toned and fit, with pale skin and a rather angular face that was beardless. More problematic yet is the all-male cast, which in the Elizabethan theater featured beardless youths plausible in female roles, but here offers adult men inadvertently or, in one case, deliberately, camping. And Cargill, now beardless, appeared to enjoy the event, regaling colleagues with a few anecdotes. He continues his onslaught against all things glamorous, now beardless, but sporting a home-made basin-cut. His face was smooth and beardless, a testament to his youth, with high cheekbones and a delicate looking nose and mouth. In the second year, a beardless, spring wheat variety was mixed at planting with the winter wheat varieties so that when the spring wheat died during winter, the result was the desired levels of winterkill damage. Turning his back he rubbed his beardless chin thoughtfully, ‘Could I be loosing my touch?’ These are followed shortly by the lovely graceful flowers of such beardless types as the Southern species hybrids and spurias. Principal types of irises are bearded, beardless, crested and bulb. ‘Right,’ the beardless man agreed, knowing his friend had a point. It suggests a sense of humour, a willingness to make an effort, an aspiration towards the airy, healthy, beardless Scandinavian lifestyle. The beardless miller's son, dressed in rags, is portrayed creating ex nihilo in the isolation of his bare studio something entirely original out of himself. Needless to say, the actors' faces at least will be beardless in this production. They didn't approve of a wandless, robeless, staffless, and most importantly of all, beardless wizard. The Santa Claus at Southgate Mall does wear a red-and-white suit, but otherwise he's tall, young, thin, beardless - and white. Ernest Hemingway in his beardless days - a robust and athletic young man Origin Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart. As well as referring to a man's facial hair, beard, which is related to Latin barba ‘beard’, is used of the chin tuft of certain animals, such as a lion and a goat. These uses come together in the phrase to beard the lion in his den or lair, ‘to confront or challenge someone on their own ground’. To invade someone's personal space enough to be able to touch or pull their beard was always an aggressive or provocative act—in 1587 the English sailor and explorer Francis Drake (c.1540–96) described his expedition to Cadiz as ‘the singeing of the King of Spain's Beard’. In the Middle Ages to run in someone's beard was to defy him, and by the 16th century you could simply ‘beard someone’. Clearly this stopped being fearsome enough, and lions were introduced in the 18th century. Rhymes weird noun.1 phr. Definition of beard in US English: beard nounˈbirdˈbɪrd 1A growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man's face. he had a black beard three days' growth of beard Example sentencesExamples He was tall and muscular with shaggy black hair with a beard. He had even taken the time to dye his beard and hair black. She laid her head back on his shoulder, taking pleasure in the soft, dry texture of his trim beard against her cheek. He washed his face and shaved his nightly growth of a beard. He had short black hair with a black beard and what has been described as ‘sores’ on his face. They are young; they wear fatigues and sport long black hair and beards. The two six-year-old boys described the man who approached them as white, aged about 40, with some beard growth on his chin. Euthenas giggled as the whiskery hairs of his beard tickled her cheeks. The giveaways are the white beard, ruddy cheeks and pet cat draped round his neck like a fur stole. I'm also cultivating a tiny beard under my lower lip but purely because I quite liked tugging on it. The other was 5ft 9in with short black hair and a beard. His suit was dark, his hair dyed black, his beard full and neat. He had white skin, a trimmed beard, small black eyes and short-cropped hair around a bald spot. The man was a giant, with a large flowing mane of jet black hair and a beard to match. They contain more blood than essence in men, and thus promote the growth of the beard and body hair. He had long shaggy dirty blond hair almost completely covering his eyes; he had a two-day-old beard forming on his cheeks and chin. Instead, I've tried to ignore it, but whether I shave off my goatee, grow a beard or cut my hair, the resemblance won't go away. After completing their career courses, captains arrive at new duty stations wearing Bermuda shorts, Birkenstocks, and 3-day growths of beards. His long, tangled hair joined with his beard, his long black leather coat was clad with silver chains and spikes, as were his solid boots. A little beard definitely makes my cheeks look a bit fuller, which can only be a good thing. Synonyms facial hair, whiskers, stubble, designer stubble, five o'clock shadow, bristles 1.1 A tuft of hair on the chin of certain mammals, for example a lion or goat. Example sentencesExamples The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard. The goat has dilute glaze on its forehead and upper beard. Both males and females are brown to dark-gray with light beards and dark faces. Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse. The tail is short and tipped with black; ears have long black tufts and cheeks have long pale ruffs which form a pointed beard at the throat. 1.2 An animal's growth or marking that is likened to a beard, e.g., the gills of an oyster, or the beak bristles of certain birds. Example sentencesExamples The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white. The Ameraucana has a tail, muffs, and a beard around its face. Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches. Many of the larger hatcheries claim to sell araucanas, but instead are selling americanas, which have a tail and a beard instead of tufts, or Easter Egg chickens, which can look like anything as they are only part araucana. A bird shot by a 9-year-old of Lebanon set new Oregon state records for weight, beard length and overall score. 1.3 A tuft of hairs or bristles on certain plants, especially the awn of a grass. Example sentencesExamples Each grain is covered with a husk called the ‘lemma’ which may or may not have a long hair or ‘beard’ on the tip; modern wheats include bearded and beardless varieties. Our wheat does have a beard, but not as itchy as a barley awn. I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard. Decorate each ‘ear’ with two leaves and spun sugar to resemble corn beards. The beard and branches are cut off to leave only the best part of the ginseng, however the head is left on for consumers to better assess the quality of the herb. The strands of barley's beard can get stuck in an animals mouth because it is sharp. 2US informal A person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity. Example sentencesExamples When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books. So beards, carrying their myriad associations with dissent and disorder, shiftiness and oddness, are considered dangerous vote - losers. Customers found opening or using multiple accounts or masking their true identity "beards" will forfeit all winnings. Beards can be anyone and can be found in casino-based sportsbooks and even online books. But what's to stop someone from betting $50,000 at a book with a limit of $1,000 from simply arranging for 49 other people (the "movers" or "beards") to bet $1,000 each for him? 3North American informal A person who pretends to have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone else in order to conceal the other's true sexual orientation. Example sentencesExamples So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard. True, their female beard friend is over in the isolation booth but there's nothing really gay about the "altered" photo. One of her very gay friends has a Hampton wedding to his very female beard. His wife Linda was not just a beard, though. A beard is an accessory that adds a rough layer of macho to a very made-up silver screen image. verbˈbirdˈbɪrd [with object] Boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable). Example sentencesExamples I missed my daily dose of Prof. Quiggin for a week or so, due to his spam crisis, so I didn't notice that the Professor's commenters were already bearding this interesting question… But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today. Vida away, Elsie and Aileen teaching, so I was left to beard the dragon. Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order. Is this, at bottom, about international order or is it really about bearding the Americans and glorifying France? The man was bearded and wore a shiny suit and a red leather tie. Synonyms confront, face, challenge, brave, come face to face with, meet head on Phrases beard the lion in his den (or lair) Confront or challenge someone on their own ground. Example sentencesExamples Deciding to beard the lion in his den, I visit Dr. Gerald Imber, a Fifth Avenue plastic surgeon. And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed. Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den. By this time we were willing to try anything, so he turned up early the next day prepared to beard the lion in his den. So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den. She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den. This, however, was bearding the lion in his den, the lady being cared for in a milder way by the authorities, while James returned home. The answer was obvious: beard the lion in his den. As the saying goes, beard the lion in his den. This was somewhat like bearding the lion in his den; and so it needed delicate handling. The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile. No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den. She's got to face her demons, beard the lion in his den. In the end, it came down to the fact that this wonderful Moorefield team was just a bit too young for the task in hand, bearding the Nobber lions in their picturesque North Meath lair in a keenly contested Leinster JFC final on Sunday. To come after it was to beard the lion in his den; to go without it was to blister in the sun. She bearded the lion in his den with a revelation-packed bombing campaign, attempting to beat him into coalition. Now I suppose I am bearding the lion in his den, when I state that one of the planks of the platform is that we ask for an immediate, and substantial, and all-round reduction of the customs tariff-a substantial, immediate and all-round reduction of the customs tariff. So he performs yet another act of selflessness and goes to beard the lion in his den. Wole Soyinka is one of those writers who subscribe to bearding the lion in his den. That said the former Johnstownbridge was no more than cautiously optimistic about bearding the Royal lion in his Navan lair in a fortnight's time in the first round of the Leinster championship. Origin Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart. noun.1 phr.
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