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English Dictionary: bearded by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bearded
adj
  1. having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: bearded, barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery]
  2. having a growth of hairlike awns; "bearded wheatgrass"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beard \Beard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bearded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bearding}.]
      1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard
            of (a man), in anger or contempt.
  
      2. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
  
                     No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute
                     minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter
                     something about a court martial.         --Macaulay.
  
      3. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and
            similar shellfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bearded \Beard"ed\, a.
      Having a beard. [bd]Bearded fellow.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Bearded
      grain.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {Bearded vulture}, {Bearded eagle}. (Zo[94]l.) See
            {Lammergeir}.
  
      {Bearded tortoise}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Matamata}.
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