beard

Definitions

• Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
• The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
• The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
• The byssus of certain shellfish.
• The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
• In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
• (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
• A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
• The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
• That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
• (printing) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
• (LGBT) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.