beard

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Cognate further to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬: the word may date to as,. .

Noun

 * 1) Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
 * 2) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
 * 3) The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
 * 4) The byssus of certain shellfish.
 * 5) The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
 * 6) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
 * 7)  Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
 * 8) Long, hair-like feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey
 * 9) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
 * 10) The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
 * 11) That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
 * 12)  That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
 * 13)  A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
 * 14) One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
 * 15)  A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
 * 1)  A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
 * 2) One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
 * 3)  A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
 * 1)  A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
 * 1)  A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

Verb

 * 1)  To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
 * 2)  To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
 * 3)  To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
 * 4)  To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
 * 5)  Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
 * 6)  Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
 * 1)  To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
 * 2)  To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
 * 3)  Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
 * 4)  Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
 * 1)  Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
 * 2)  Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).