bearded

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a beard

   Having a beard; involving a beard.

   • (botany)
   • (zoology)
   • Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:
2. 2

   Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).

   • bearded mussel
   • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]
   • [B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!
3. 3

   Of an axe

   Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.

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   1. 4

      Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

      • [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’
      • … for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …
      • Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.
   2. 5

      Having barbs of a certain color.

   3. 6

      Ellipsis of bearded iris.

   4. 7

      simple past and past participle of beard

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• antonymbeardless