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Definition & Synonyms
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• Beard
- (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
- (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
- (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- (n.) An imposition; a trick.
- (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
- (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
- (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
- (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
- (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (n.) That part of the under side of a horses lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
- (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
Synonyms:
Byssus,
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• Bear
- (v. t.) To gain or win.
- (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
- (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
- (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
- (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
- (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
- (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
- (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
- (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
- (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
- (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
- (n.) A bier.
- (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
- (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
- (n.) A portable punching machine.
- (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
- (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
- (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
- (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
- (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
- (n.) Alt. of Bere
- (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
- (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
- (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
- (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
- (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
- (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
- (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
- (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
- (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
- (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
- (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
- (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
Synonyms:
Abide, Accept, Acquit, Assume, Behave, Birth, Brook, Carry, Comport, Conduct, Contain, Deliver, Deport, Endure, Expect, Have, Hold, Pay, Stand, Stomach, Suffer, Support, Tolerate, Wear, Yield,
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• Beardless
- (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
- (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
Synonyms:
Whiskerless,
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