beard
the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,118 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,373 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face also: face fungus, whiskers
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface also: byssus
verb
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin Houses bearded the top of the heights
beard in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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His Van Dyke beard was neatly trimmed and combed.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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He was a man about forty years of age, tall, thin, already bald, and wearing his beard trimmed close.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent-leather boot with a tasselled ebony cane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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The thirty-five-year graduates, eighty strong, the men who are handling the nation, wear a unanimous sudden growth of rolling gray beard.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1