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单词 beardlike
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
beard /bɪrd/USA pronunciation   n. 
    [countable]
  1. hair growing on the lower part of the face:I shaved my beard before the interview.
  2. Biologya similar growth on the chin of some animals:the beard of a goat.

v. [+ object]
  1. to oppose (someone) boldly;
    defy:It took courage for him to beard the board of directors.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
beard  (bērd),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
  2. Zoologya 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. Botanya 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. PrintingAlso called bevel neck. 
    • Printingthe sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body.
    • Printing[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.
    • Printingthe cross stroke on the stem of a capital G. See diag. under type. 

v.t. 
  1. to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of:The hoodlums bearded the old man.
  2. to oppose boldly;
    defy:It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
  3. to supply with a beard.
  • bef. 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with German Bart, Dutch baard, Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars, Latin barba ( Welsh barf ), Lithuanian barzdà, Old Church Slavonic brada, Russian borodá; European Indo-European * bHaer-dhā, perh. akin to barley1
beardlike′, adj. 
    • 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged confront, brave, dare, face, challenge.

Beard  (bērd),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Charles Austin, 1874–1948, and his wife Mary, 1876–1958, U.S. historians.
  2. Biographical Daniel Carter, 1850–1941, U.S. artist and naturalist: organized the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.

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