n. - The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
n. - The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
n. - The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
n. - The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
n. - The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
n. - The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
n. - In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
n. - Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
n. - A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
n. - That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
n. - That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
n. - An imposition; a trick.
v. t. - To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
v. t. - To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
v. t. - To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.